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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
- Harlem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skills that are employable or marketable, education, having a stake or meaningful role in society, not being marginalized - all of those things are very important.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump has been - has shown himself to be the most ignorant president that we've ever had. He has shown himself to be the one that disregards law more so than any other president we've had.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
- Hysteria
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- Nov 07, 2020
Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
- Distinguishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are really into social justice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
- Demonstrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran.
- Nov 07, 2020
It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we stay focused on data and the real issues, we can tailor our inventions to enhance public health and safety while decreasing the likelihood of racial discrimination.
- Expert
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- Nov 07, 2020