I would have said the same directly to The Independent's post, but that would have required creating a "Live Journal" account :/ In the meanwhile, I suggest a

I would have said the same directly to The Independent's post, but that would have required creating a "Live Journal" account :/ In the meanwhile, I suggest a search of better stories / exchanges that have appeared in the past on Hacker News . Just in case The Independent monitors us here, this is what I wanted to convey to them: How might "smart drugs" help journalists? For example: how might accuracy and attention to detail by reporters, writers, and fact-checkers be improved. More specifically, would someone at The Independent have caught this article's reference to "the University of Harvard" and realized it was as absurd as "the University of Oxford"? Perhaps... if Ritalin & co. boosts performance of sleep-deprived journalists as well as sleep-deprived helicopter pilots. --from other side of the pond