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Federal officials have known for decades that urine screens are not reliable. Poppy seeds—which come from the same plant used to make heroin—are so notorious fo
by anigbrowl 2y ago
Federal officials have known for decades that urine screens are not reliable. Poppy seeds—which come from the same plant used to make heroin—are so notorious for causing positives for opiates that last year the Department of Defense directed service members to stop eating them.
Absolute meme country. Why do we institutionalize such stupidity?
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoBecause it's cheaper than trying to design higher quality or more specific tests.
- falcolas 2y agoI agree with this. Moreso, the cost of firing/CPSing a false positive is likely negligible in the grand scale.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoBy selecting for efficient test taking robots at the critical gateways to the graduate level education necessary to obtain these decision-making "leadership" roles. A comparable phenomenon is at work in medical school admissions, with similar results that lead to the sort of appallingly callous group-preservation outcomes described in the original article and some of the comments here. The entire system is irreversibly broken at the most fundamental levels, as this same class of decision makers are the ones who are consulted when developing the next round of gatekeeping tests and curricula.
- klyrs 2y agoLook, if you can't quit poppy seeds for a single pee test, you're probably an addict. (parody)