In a review of the year's events published in the December issue of Science, Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy wrote, "It was also a vintage year for scientific fluffs. We shared in one: Some vials containing the recreational drug Ecstasy got switched with vials containing methamphetamine, and we wound up publishing a paper we wish we hadn't". Journalists such as Larry Smith and Carla Spartos have stated that the inaccurate study may have influenced drug policy being made at the time, such as the RAVE act. In an interview in The Scientist British scientists Colin Blakemore and Leslie Iversen described how they expressed concerns about the<unk>  with editors at Science. "It's an outrageous scandal," Iversen told The Scientist. "It's another example of a certain breed of scientist who appear to do research on illegal drugs mainly to show what the governments want them to show. They extract large amounts of grant money from the government to do this sort of biased work.
Retracted article on dopaminergic neurotoxicity of MDMA
Evolutionary models of human drug use
Modesty in medical settings
Countries banning non-human ape experimentation
International nonproprietary name
Animal model of schizophrenia
Alternatives to animal testing
Isogenic human disease models