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This is an extremely dumb headline. Like bottom of the barrel dumb.
"Nobody's allowed to research this"
"You don't have evidence"
To the minuscule extent that psychedelics have been legit studied so far, the science is not only not weak, but fucking overwhelmingly strong. Just keep doing it and it will settle itself.
If you have ever met people involved in psychedelic research, nothing of the article‘s revelations is a surprise.
Psychedelics have a bad image as illegal recreational drugs. That means only doctors, who believe in them will even touch any research into them. Others don’t want to risk tarnishing their image. Once your name is on a paper about psychedelics, you will always have he image of a drug guy.
Rick Doblin was always a true believer who thinks the science is there. That's his whole thing. MDMA therapy was looking like a shoe in until the last days of review.
Either way, I think it's important not to hold psychedelics to any higher standards than the drugs they replace. The article itself cites Matthew perry's death as a warning against ketamine but he bought it illicitly and then drowned after having someone else administer it. Not exactly dropping dead from use.
A daily "forever" treatment like SSRIs are way more profitable for big pharma compared to psychedelics which are freely available in nature and can have long term benefits on a single dose.