Check out this article! Very interesting! Seems to be a lot of psychedelic research going on at the moment. Enjoy!

https://www.sciencedaily...&utm_medium=facebook

There are already two (2) threads on this study. Can this thread please be deleted by a moderator or merged with the others?

My bad

on CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/v...3/exp-lsd-researcher.cnn

That interview was painful to watch. It's a shame the media is still trying so desperately to frame psychedelics in a negative light, even when they're interviewing researches who are telling them "No! That's not the case, that's not how this works!"

For those who don't have Flash on their computers:




Depends on the interviewer, this was quite good for CNN - next time he should skip the sensationalist idiot and get on Sanjay's couch:



Btw, funny that CH never took LSD. Hopefully he delved into the lysergic RCs.

This sort of flys in the face of the 8 circuit model doesn't it? Unless circuit I and VIII are more intertwined with each other than previously thought, perhaps even temporally parallel relative the lifespan the individual.

Yeah, Sanjay is a godsend on CNN compared to the other journalists. But even he's fairly conservative on these issues. I guess a step in the right direction is a good thing though, and certainly better than the opposite.

There is a very good analysis of this study (the LSD one in the OP), and critique of the way the media is portraying it.

The LSD study: you're being subtly deceived (again)

The author responded to feedback the very next day:

The LSD study: an author responds

And there is even further excellent discussion on Reddit about it:

Reddit thread

I've only read through the first link and some of the Reddit discussion, but it appears to me what is going on is a high quality, sorely needed discussion on the paradigms from which we view the effects of psychedelics, particularly when we look at it through a scientific lens.

Plus it points out the knee-jerk assumptions that could be drawn (and refuted) from such a study.