The Paper Goes Onto To Provide A Fully Reproducible Procedure For Each Method

The Paper Goes Onto To Provide A Fully Reproducible Procedure For Each Method
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The ultimate scientific double standard! TV shows like Breaking Bad have to censor their chemistry to avoid teaching viewers how to synthesize methamphetamine, but flip through any organic chemistry journal and you'll find detailed reaction mechanisms with full reagents and conditions.

Nothing says "academic freedom" quite like publishing the Leuckart Method and Reductive Amination pathways to racemic methamphetamine in peer-reviewed literature while Walter White has to be all mysterious about his blue crystals.

Scientists really be publishing illicit drug syntheses with the casual disclaimer "for educational purposes only" and calling it a day. Publication committees be like: "Hmm yes, very scholarly. Approved!"

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