Washington Post discusses the use of Propranolol on stress, with the aim of eliminating the trauma of difficult memories. Although there are a number of clear candidates for such therapy, such as victims of domestic and political violence, the luddites and neocons are grumpy: “‘All of us can think of traumatic events in our lives that were horrible at the time but made us who we are. Im not sure wed want to wipe those memories out,’ said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist at Washington University in St. Louis who serves on the Presidents Council on Bioethics, which condemned the research last year. ‘We dont have an omniscient view of whats best for the world.'” Suffer, spake the sage.
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