Is Wired Pushing Illegal Drug Use?

New York Times:

Yes, its name is a double entendre, referring both to technology and to being high. But does Wired magazine really mean to promote drugs?

In the May issue, the main feature was "12 Ways to Super-Charge Your Brain." On the cover, Steve Carell, the comedian, wears oversized electrodes on his head next to a headline that says, "Get Smarter!"

In a 15-page package, the magazine gives some mild advice to people who want to enhance their cognition: "Think Positive," it advises, and "Distract Yourself." Then there is a somewhat disarming chart: "Do the Right Drugs," it recommends, laying out the pros and cons of eight drugs -- some legal, some not -- that it says can "boost your cognitive output."

Six are prescription medications, like Adderall, a potentially addictive drug that is often prescribed to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. But the list also includes nicotine, which, according to Wired, aids in "memory formation and attention." And methamphetamine, which the magazine says can "increase concentration and creative output."

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Comments

[kellygrrrl]

Pharma Inc. would be pushing this sh!t on kids everywhere if they could get the Ownership Rights.

Literally, your pediatrician would tell you to give your kid a little pill every morning

[wm1066]

Hey Huffington techies there is a popup add for a sports drink that is appearing and you can't get rid of it. It goes right over your comment box. The collapse X box does nothing.

[kellygrrrl]

don't EVER hit the collapse X box -- ugh! you'll be sorry

[HatingTheGame]

":popup add for a sports drink "

Now that's what I call target marketing -- story on drugs to enhance your cognitive powers -- and up pops a fizzled pop drink making you think you're a sports man.

We are a nation (world) of drugs.

[Wiredwilly]

WIRED is to the New York Times as Werner Heisenberg is to Barbara Walters.
The headline " Is Wired Pushing Illegal Drug Use " sounds like the title of some speech by Richard Nixon. The underlying moral self righteousness smacks of being brainwashed by years of propaganda. If someone is going to write about WIRED or drugs, at least they should comprehend what they're talking about. Even though the magazine fell off an intellectual cliff years ago and now resembles Gentleman's Quarterly , one would wonder why Huffington Post would even print this Right Wing drivel.

[JScott]

And the current issue seems to be shilling GWB's denial of global warming.
Jeez I'll still find more cred with Scientific American at least it tries to get it's stuff right instead of trying to be too hip.

[mediamarv]

Obviously the answer is no.

Why the question??

Slow news day?

[noamjunior]

IS wired Ironic?
Wired is pushing drug use like swift pushed canabalism

[thesimulacra]

You mean A Modest Proposal was satire? Shit and here I've been eating babies all these years for nothing.