> this administration recently signed an executive order directing the agency to speed up the development and approval process for psychedelics
replyCan’t the President directly unschedule it?
Yup. Not sure which particular stopped-clock struck right within the generally anti-science MAHA movement but I think everybody is happy to take the win.
replyIronically enough, the psychedelic field sort of defies some scientific analysis, so could be construed as "anti-science". I've seen some commentary that it's difficult to test. As an example, you can't really do a double blind study with a placebo because it's obvious to everybody who got the drug.
replyThe same could be said for a lot of drugs that have strong side effects, just one difference here is the main "side effects" are something some people consider fun. Though you could still do double-blind for comparing the effectiveness of different psychedelics, e.g comparing LSD to Psilocybin.
replyNiacin works well as an 'active placebo'.
replyjust because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though.
replylike idk, how do you do double blind studies of astronomical phenomena?
Yeah I know. I'm pulling that out as an example.
replyIt's also true that people in the psychedelic world talk about non-reproducible aspects of the trip quite a bit. "Set and setting" and so forth.
> just because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though.
replyShhh, non-scientists don't know that.
Double blind studies became a requirement in order to protect the people from the greed of pharmaceutica companies and their natural desire to cut corners in research.
replyThey only did it because it lets them beat the "big pharma is stealing from you (not us)" drum.
replythat feeling of a clock striking right is actually a momentary glint of light pouring through a crack in the cold stone shell that has become encrusted around the hearts of those soaking too often in the type of extreme rhetorical panic which broods a curated and embedded fear similar to the kind that makes children afraid of the bogey man, they feel safer to stay hidden with the fear than to venture out enough to discover it was just a chimney sweep on the distant rooftop and everything is fine outside after all where they soon discover some great adventure or purpose in the richness of the world
replyBurma Shave
replyIronic statement considering the last administration used terms like, "birthing people" and denied the existence of the president's dementia.
replyKeep the pathetic "pat me on the back" comments to Reddit please.
Because Trump is in bad need of this shit?
reply"oh wow, look at my tiny hands, so tiny, hands"
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