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Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) by Nursie on Sunday June 30, 2013 @06:50PM (#5967586)
Fraud you say?

Perhaps you should inform Imperial College, one of the UK's most prestigious science and engineering institutes, where he currently holds a chair in neuropsychopharmacology.

Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) by jessriedel on Sunday June 30, 2013 @07:04PM (#5967659)
If you follow Alex3917's link, you'll see he argues that Nutt is intellectually dishonest. That's of course different than being regular dishonest (i.e. fraudulent).
Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) by Nursie on Sunday June 30, 2013 @07:08PM (#5967673)
I think if that was really the case then IC would still want to know, I wasn't kidding about them being one of the most prestigious institutions in the UK.
Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) by jessriedel on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:43PM (#5967997)
Indeed, having been offered an academic job at Imperial, I'm partial to thinking of it as a place of high prestige.

The thing about intellectual dishonesty is that it's not provable, and in fact usually isn't even noticed by people who agree with the conclusion. If you read the link, you'll see that these allegations are hardly the kind that would lead a university to remove a professor.

Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) by flyinRyan on Monday July 01, 2013 @10:31AM (#5970863)
We don't need to follow the link. This comment said the research was "entirely fraudulent". Amusing that his actual argument said something rather different.
Re:Drugs and the Meaning of Life (2011) by jessriedel on Monday July 08, 2013 @02:49PM (#6008417)
Poor choice of words, but I don't think that's enough to justify ignoring his criticism.