Ricaurte and colleagues were forced to retract their paper one year after it was published in The New York Times on September 27, 2002, because they discovered what drug had been mistakenly given, rather than MDMA?

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Ricaurte and colleagues retracted their paper because they discovered that methamphetamine had been mistakenly given to primates in their study, instead of MDMA (Ecstasy). This error significantly impacted the study's findings and conclusions about the neurotoxic effects of MDMA.

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