The largest randomized psychedelic trial in history happened in Brazil. Its strangest finding isn’t about ayahuasca at all.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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    16 days ago

    WTF: Let economists control and study your trip? Surprised it’s only 1 in 8 bad trips (which is worse than normal). Not for me, and yeah it’s right there in the abstract, 200x financial gain. FU.

    Otherwise unsurprising, psychedelics help depression and neuronal plasticity, shocker.

    • Cabbanis@lemmy.eco.brOP
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      16 days ago

      They were not present. The ceremonies were conducted by a center in Brazil that receives over 1400 people per year. I meant to say that the data and analysis were coordinated and published by a group of economists.

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        16 days ago

        “A commercial center that receives 1400 tourists per year.”

        An intimate spiritual retreat just like the ancient shamans intended it.