IT CAME as a bombshell last September when researchers announced that a single night on the drug ecstasy might cause brain damage and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The warning, based on primate research published in Science, struck fear into anyone who had taken the “love drug”. Had they condemned themselves to a progressive, debilitating disease?
But it was all a ghastly mistake. A retraction this week in Science makes clear that an erroneous label on a bottle meant that the 10 squirrel monkeys and baboons in the original experiment were not given ecstasy, but methamphetamine. It was an all too…
