If you could take a drug that could erase your memories, would you do it? It's not such a hypothetical question-neuroscientists have identified a drug that can wipe out memory in rats. It's not something that could be used on humans, but its existence raises a lot of big ethical issues. To sort those out, NOVA talked to Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

If you could take a drug that could erase your memories, would you do it? It's not such a hypothetical question-neuroscientists have identified a drug that can wipe out memory in rats. It's not something that could be used on humans, but its existence raises a lot of big ethical issues. To sort those out, NOVA talked to Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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