Who do you think is going to volunteer for this kind of experiment?
Right. Druggies.
Who do you think conducts experiments like this, and edits the results
Right. Druggies.
Are these results any surprize?
Most [subjects] reported having a "mystical" or "spiritual" experience and rated it positively.
More than a year later, most still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, Mr Griffiths and colleagues report in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
"This is a truly remarkable finding," he said.
"Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory."
Is that a fact? Perhaps the positive results have got something to do with the fact that it's based not on objective measures of the benefits but no heresay: what druggies said about their drug experience.
When data that is more reliable than an opinion came in it was prompty swept aside
While some of our subjects reported strong fear or anxiety for a portion of their day-long psilocybin sessions, none reported any lingering harmful effects, and we didn't observe any clinical evidence of harm," Mr Griffiths said.Of course they said that you idiot. They want the research to support their drug use.
At least the researchers admitted one thing sensible:
Hallucinogens should not be given to people at risk for psychosis or certain other serious mental disorders, the researchers said.Guys, that's everybody. Until you take the drugs there is no way of knowing how you will react. People flip out and there is no going back. I wonder how these experimenters could have been so sure that the people they were giving the drugs to would not freak. Could it be because these people had taken the drugs before? on multiple occasions?
None of the results of this test can be taken seriously unless the prior drug use of the participants is (honestly) published as well. Those conducting the experiment must be subjected to as much scrutiny as those who were used as subjects.
This is bad science. I fear bad data, bad interpretation and misreprsentation are being used to peddle an agenda, a dangerous one.
Just how dangerous is revealed by the most compelling piece of information in this survey, a quote from a subject on their drug experience:
Surrender is intensely powerful. To 'let go' and become enveloped in the beauty of - in this case music - was enormously spiritual," one volunteer said.The evidence is clear. Drugs make you a dickhead.
