Do You All Think This Could Work? Or Is This A Helpless Case?

[kpete]

Anti-stupid" pill tested on mice Sat Aug 5, 9:10 AM ET



BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.

It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilise short-term memory and improve attentiveness.

"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."

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[panader0]

1. No. I think the only thing that will make * less stupid is dying

[mike_c]

7. which is equivalent to saying that a corpse is smarter...

...than the living chimperor. :rofl:

[liberal N proud]

2. He is beyond help.

We are talking about someone who has pickled brain syndrome.

He has consumed so much alcohol that nothing can restore the cells he has killed.

[Robbien]

3. With our luck the FDA wouldn't let it in the country

They need to keep us stupid.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He would have to be at least as smart as a fruit fly.

And mouse intelligence is obviously way beyond him. So I don't think it will work.

[kpete]

6. thats kind of where I was on this

somewhere between a mouse and a fruit fly (no offense to fruit flies)...

[mikelewis]

5. I keep forgetting what I was going to write.

[greendog]

8. I doubt it would work on the lower lifeforms...

Hopeless case:--->

[kpete]

9. my brother is

an amateur entomologist I should refer this urgent question to him...

[Dogmudgeon]

10. I always thought that good sex would have the same effect

Perhaps it explains my own cognitive decline ...

--p!