'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus's spread.
Parker Crutchfield, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law, Western Michigan University
• conversation
Aug. 10, 2020 • ~9 min
Aug. 10, 2020 • ~9 min
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