Yes! Yes! Yes! Anti-Stupidity Pill in the Works!!!!!!

If this hit’s the market, I’m going to be spiking soooooo many drinks with it!

Dear, Og! Let them get this on the fast track to approval!

Hmmm… Intelligence is a complex thing though - I suspect that any attempt to tweak it with drugs is going to magnify one thing (say, attentiveness) at the expense of another (say, creativity); might be OK as a one-off when you need to endure a twelve-hour tax calculating session, but not as a general-purpose make-you-smart pill.

I don’t think there is any common negative aspect of cognition (forgetfulness, inattentiveness, etc), that isn’t also sometimes a positive factor in a different process.

Durrrrrr…wha?
my cat’s breath smells like cat food!

Forget stupidity… the linked article says it might help short-term memory, which would be a great help to people like my father, who has mostly lost his. :frowning:

Anti-stupidity pill? So does that mean if Ann Coulter takes them, she’ll cease to exist?

LET’S GET THOSE PUPPIES TO MARKET, STAT!

Clearly you don’t need the pill, what with your ten-dollar words and all. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m holding out for the proper-apostrophe-use pill;)

Interesting…I checked other articles online, & then Googled.

The research institute exists, & the scientist named is affiliated.

So it isn’t too likely to be a “prank” article.
Of course, this doesn’t mean the pill will work

Monkey crap on a stick. Those words were only 50 cents when I was a kid.

I would take that pill. I’m well aware that my skills in that area are lacking.

You had monkey crap on a stick? :eek:

All we had was snail slime on a leaf – and we liked it!

All we had were frequent beatings and scurvy. What was it like growing up in four-star luxury?

You had scurvy? Lucky bastard.

The quintessential and provocative aspect of said pills, as I have observed in empirical double-blind studies, is that they tend too were of prety sune and…

um…

thingy.

So what exactly do mice and fruit flies have to remember? Where they put the car keys? If they turned off the oven? Not do any activity that starts with the phrase, “Hey, hold my beer and watch this”?

I dunno, sometimes I… ooh, nice shoes!

I think you mean skill’s in those area’s.

Don’t thank me.

Wa’sn’t plan’ning o’n it. :wink:

Oh sure, we had the scurvy. Every meal,. scurvy, scurvy, and more scurvy.

But we didn’t know any better and we liked it.

Mom used to make a nice toasted scurvy bread on special nights.

Hey! I thought this was my idea!? :smiley: