Carl Hart Quotes
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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.
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It takes some courage to say you were wrong.
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As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.
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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.
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I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
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The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.
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Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.
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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.
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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
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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.
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The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.
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I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
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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.
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In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.
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If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
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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.
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If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.
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The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
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It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
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I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
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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.
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Politicians move when the public requires them to move.
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If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.
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One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.