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Lifestyle drugs and the new wave of pharmaceutical personality sculpting

“Ask your doctor if medical advice from a television commercial is right for you.”
—Bumper sticker slogan
At a the annual conference for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality last year, I heard a researcher describe how the pharmaceutical industry “jukes the stats”—that is, crunches numbers creatively in order to persuade the public that their [...]