Scientist Wants To Crowdfund A ‘Meth Lab’ | Talking Points Memo

No, it’s not a plot out of the hit AMC series “Breaking Bad” (at least not yet).

But Ethan Perlstein, an evolutionary pharmacologist and independent research fellow at Princeton University in New Jersey, is about to launch a crowdfunding effort asking online donors for a collective sum of $25,000 to fund what he calls his own “meth lab” — a two-to-three month scientific study that will aim to ascertain “once and for all, where amphetamines accumulate inside brain cells,” which Perlstein says has remained long unsolved in pharmacology.


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