New York Times, always asking the tough questions no one else is brave enough to ask

Hamilton Morris cannot let Psymposia speak to any of the claims he makes about us, because he will be revealed to be outright lying and willfully misinterpreting our analyses of the space.

Spent the past 2h looking into Neşe's claims and I have to report that I can mostly support them :( You might disagree with Neşe's bioethical framework. The following hate campaign launched by Hamilton and Andrew against them is disgusting beyond words. Lots more details in this thread.

He dropped the gonzo reporter act to become a corporate chemist for the most controversial company in the industry he claimed to journalistically cover lol. Returned to psychedelia as a pro-industry, pro-patent medicine pundit.

Some highlights? -Silicon-Valley-centered groups funding veteran proxies to promote misguided agendas to lawmakers & attack critics -Psychedelic investors betting on Trump admin as 'best hope for mental health' -Psychedelic CEO's creating misinfo bots trained on Hamilton Morris + so much more!

From Natalie Storey's Maenad Diary: psychedelicauntie.substack.com/p/the-psyche...

Hey @nytimes.com? Fuck off and leave us alone. We don't give a shit what your band of sweaty billionaire fluffers thinks about our politics.

This graph hits different after reading Psymposia’s “Psychedelic Syndicate” report.

A new mix from Icarus Redux weaves together the opening of Psymposia’s “Psychedelic Syndicate” report with echoes from the drug war and the psychedelic underground. on.soundcloud.com/LL3t75dKMjHc...

This quote continues to rattle me to my core: "So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them." That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

Chapter 8: “The One Guy Who Voted Yes”

Between 2023-2024, the Wall Street Journal reported on the drug use of Elon Musk and his inner circle. This reporting revealed that some Tesla + SpaceX directors were “concerned” about Musk’s use of “cocaine, ecstasy, LSD…magic mushrooms” + “particularly his recreational use of ketamine.” 1/7

Psymposia reveals how powerful Silicon Valley funders launched a coordinated PR campaign to silence opposition and protect their financial interests. Read the full report: "The Psychedelic Syndicate." www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

morning all - if you saw the big Psychedelics conference at Harpa earlier this year (& Jakob Bjarnar's puff piece), and you thought "this reeks of some high level BS," then this deep investigation by the Psymposia team will interest you greatly. www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

Some light Friday reading

Amazing work by @neselsd.bsky.social and the rest of the @psymposia.bsky.social team reporting on SV hijacking of psychedelic research initiatives via takeover of nonprofits This is your archetypal right wing tech-money influence network, documented with tons of primary sources

Announcing: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry" Now on @Psymposia's website in four parts. www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

New from @psymposia.bsky.social: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry" www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Next week, Lutnick on Rogan tapping an overlong cigar ash: "So, what I'm saying is real Americans know in their hearts—like Elon does—that work sets you free."

1. On Feb 4, NYT published an article targeting Psymposia, full of inaccuracies & false accusations. Worse, the journalists breached editorial policy by ignoring a number of fact checks & refusing to give us opportunity to respond to allegations raised against us. www.psymposia.com/magazine/cor...

@msmacb.bsky.social on NYT's cringey smear of @psymposia.bsky.social: “When vague accusations of ‘DEI’ and ‘wokeness’ are already being used to gut government programs, it might not be a bad time to blame the FDA’s decision on ‘a small band of anticapitalist activists.’” slate.com/technology/2...

Last month, @nytimes.com ran an outrageous hit piece by Andrew Jacobs and Rachel Nuwer targeting @psymposia.bsky.social that was wormy with falsehoods and baseless accusations. Read our full response and corrections to their nonsense reporting here: www.psymposia.com/magazine/cor...

Major psychedelic donor and Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative director, Genevieve Jurvetson, states that she is " fairly bullish on the new [Trump] administration and their passion for addressing root causes as it relates to mental health or health in general."

😂 @psymposia.bsky.social

New post on my mailing list, riffing on a meme: "Everyone I Don't Like is Psymposia"—The Emotional Child's Guide to FDA Approval of MDMA-AT, now in The New York Times; plus, Psychedelics Today promotes "safe words" for restraint, and a new report shows how therapists are indoctrinated. Link in bio.

our Mother she hungers

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

"your outie subscribes to small publications to support quality journalism"

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

Thinking a lot about these brilliant papers by @neselsd.bsky.social, @brianpace.bsky.social, and Jac Lewis. Feels VERY relevant to the moment and Elon/RFK Jr.’s obsession with psychedelics. Seems they are having a White suprematist typa existentialism and hoping everyone will jump on board!

I always thought it was weird how much press was devoted to an unpublished study. Then it got weirder when the years kept passing by. Another great piece by Travis Kitchens. reason.com/2025/02/09/t...

Great piece by Travis Kitchens.

"a wrongful death lawsuit [...] alleges the company has also fostered a risky culture of drug use among some leaders and employees, claiming they routinely use potent psychedelics as an unregulated form of 'healing' and for recreational purposes." www.kpbs.org/news/public-...

This is how you write a headline, folks.

Nearly all of the dope in NYC tested had fentanyl, while nearly none of the cocaine and meth tested did. Read this excellent government-community partnership pilot study done by dedicated harm reductionists. 👇

Check out my conversation with the folks at @democracynow.org this morning about the right-wing movement of Silicon Valley m.youtube.com/watch?v=rKtY...

"we can already describe this moment as the most self-confident the far right has been in the West since the peak of the Third Reich."

Threatening to condition aid for fellow Americans while providing blank check military aid to a foreign government … what do you even say

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Satire is gonna come back as a zombie apocalypse.

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

The Adrian Dittmann Story all the evidence and methodology from A to Z by @ryan.staticnoi.se and me maia.crimew.gay/posts/adrian...

Sad to note that some of the disinformation and conspiracy theories that pervades Twitter/X also seeps into BlueSky. FDA rejected approval of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy because, in line with most independent, non-partisan expert committees, they evaluated the evidence as insufficient.

I just donated to this GoFundMe for one of the writers for Disco Elysium. I don't game much, but I weirdly discovered the title as an example of dystopian psychedelia in a great paper called Acid Liberalism. If you played the game, give it a read. gofund.me/314c576a

I read alien hogs are popular on this website. Fun piece from comics historian and Heavy Metal specialist @oletheros.bsky.social