Re: "More than just chemicals on the brain" | Culture | March 15

Are your average McGill undergraduates smarter than most tenured professors at the best American universities? Congratulations: apparently you are.

What's the proof?

One of your yet-to-be-degreed students, Aaron Vansintjan, recently wrote an article that boldly flies in the face of mainstream scholarship produced by history, classics, and women's studies departments stretching across the United States. And it turns out he's right.

In "More than just chemicals on the brain," an intellectual slap-in-the-face to respected academics from the U.S., Vansintjan attempts to reexamine the evolutionary relationship between humans and their long history of drug use. He accurately claims that many of the world's oldest cultures promoted drugs that are now deemed dangerous, illegal, and addictive by the modern West; medicines, recreational substances, sacraments, and vehicles once used for the spread of culture have now become the great scourges of Christian modernity.

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