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My friend was reading the news during class. I glanced over because the term ADHD caught my eye, and I read a most disturbing title.

“A.D.H.D Drugs Linked to Higher Test Scores”

I have no problem with the article or with the scientists who conducted the study the article discusses. It simply states that children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) who are being treated with medication are shown to have higher test scores than those who are not.

As a journalism major, my teachers have stressed the need for word choice and critical thinking. A title like that is very disturbing to me, someone who suffers from ADHD. It makes it sounds like people with ADHD who are medicated somehow have a better chance in school. In my mind it is like its implying that ADHD drugs are to students as steroids are to athletes.

As we left the theater after watching Star Trek (which, by the way, was awesome), two friends of mine got into an argument about how realistic it was for the Centurian Slug (similar to the eel parasite from Ceti Alpha 5) to secrete a toxin that would affect the brain of Captain Christopher Pike and make him give up Starfleet secrets.

The blood-brain barrier does restrict many substances from reaching the brain and microscopic materials, such as bacteria. In general, most things cannot pass through it and must be changed in order to pass through the barrier.

I didn’t see the new Disneynature film on Earth Day, sadly enough, but I did go and see it before it vacated the big screen.

Earth is a documentary of epic scale.

I grew up watching the discovery channel (before Animal Planet…

I apologize… Its not like anyone wants to hear anything more about this subject, but I had to put my two cents in.

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This post is in response to an article in the Daily Emerald that came out a few weeks ago.

The article was titled “A Global Farce” and addressed the alternate viewpoint that Global Warming is a result of natural causes.

While the article…