Words matter. These are the best Carl Hart Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
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.
Disregard belief systems that aren’t based on empirical studies.
One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.
Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
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.
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
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 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.
The strange proposition that black intellectuals – regardless of their training – are ‘race experts’ mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
My kids are really into social justice.
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.
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.
I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.
We need better public education and more realistic education.
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.
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.
Researchers, treatment providers – we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
You don’t have money, you can’t do science. But that’s part of the price that I pay.
The notion that scientists are dispassionate – first of all, that’s wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
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.
I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
It’s not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it’s human. I certainly have made mistakes.
In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you’ve been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they’re the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.
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.
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.
The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn’t.
