Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

Why does a space engineering lecturer believe he has novel thoughts on ADHD treatment inspired by an author from a medical era he didn’t bother to do cursory research of?

Why does person with $job_title feel like they can write with authority on $subject_not_related_to_job_title?

Is that your question?

No, my question is why someone with a job unrelated to subject didn’t bother to do enough research to find out something as simple as the fact that amphetamines were already used to boost productivity in Huxley’s era before writing as if he had some authority on the subject.

One would think that if you are not an authority in a subject you want to write on, you should do at least the equivalent of a child’s book report research before espousing your opinion and immediately looking like an ass.

Sounds like you have unmet expectations. It’s not really fair to get mad at the author.