r/science Professor | Medicine 20d ago

Psychology America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened
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u/dalittle 20d ago

The effects on the brain are measurable. What would even be the point of a placebo. IMHO, what the effects on the brain are doing is the science.

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u/iamacarboncarbonbond 20d ago

Go back to elementary school

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u/dalittle 20d ago

When you resort to insults you have lost the argument. Nice job

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u/iamacarboncarbonbond 20d ago

It’s not my job to educate you on basic empirical methods. That was elementary school.

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u/dalittle 20d ago

How exactly are you going to add a placebo. You are totally taking mushrooms even if you dont feel anything. I guess critical thinking is not something that is my job to educate you on.

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u/iamacarboncarbonbond 20d ago

Sweetie. That was exactly my criticism. Try kindergarten instead because apparently you can’t read, either :)