“There’re about a thousand of us.”

I encourage those who disagree with Psymposia's report to explain why the entire public health field agrees that these dynamics are dangerous. Respected experts at my university conducted parallel analyses of the opioid industry, as we note throughout. Should they be fired too?

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Can someone pick up a copy of this for me thx

"In this context, the convergence of far-right politics with psychedelics and artificial intelligence reflects a broader strategy of weaponizing technologies that can alter behavior and belief systems." Great stuff from @neselsd.bsky.social & co.

”Silicon Valley investors — who make up the core of PSFC’s base — are pursuing similar strategies in the artificial intelligence industry, raising the dystopian prospect of a future in which an elite circle controls industries that work synergistically to shape perceptions of reality at scale. "

Billionaire psychedelic funders portray working-class organizing as dangerous extremism. Not coincidentally, it's the same rhetoric they pushed about Psymposia. Since PSFC's admitted m.o. is reengineering groups from the inside, their conspiracy is a projection. Pay attention.

On MKUltra: "Cameron destroyed the lives of his subjects, many of whom were exceptionally vulnerable, & achieved nothing of scientific value. His work is a catalogue of exploitation & abuse. Yet there is no comprehensive account of Cameron’s studies to be found anywhere in the bioethics literature."

The mental health field is packed with pseudoscience and unsupported treatments. Exhibit XXXX. www.thecut.com/article/trut... @jonathanstea.bsky.social

I have occasionally wondered whether some of the dysfunction surrounding MAPS & its clinical trials could be a consequence of undue confidence in MDMA's safety among its staunchest advocates.

what we’re seeing is not the expression of innate stupidity but instead the result of a massive and well-funded campaign that has worked for many decades to delude people into serving the interests of the rich and powerful

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

Kirby the frame, take control of the construct.

This overview provides readers with a primer on the main characters directing the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative — the organization at the heart of Psymposia’s "Psychedelic Syndicate" report.

Chapter 8: “The One Guy Who Voted Yes”

Psychedelic Syndicate Update: Walter Dunn (Advisory Committee Member) acknowledged his prior relationship with VMHLC, a veterans coalition funded by major investors & donors in the sponsor & its parent company. In a new statement, he ignored a disclosure policy re: impartiality.

This video provides context about the scale of forces that sought to discredit us for whistleblowing at FDA. We were targeted by a coordinated PR campaign (funded by key funders of MAPS/Lykos' MDMA clinical trials) that included firms representing Lykos, PSFC & Heroic Hearts.

tl:dr - while the psychedelics industry portrays itself as a grassroots movement motivated by doing woo & good, it is funded by corporate & silicon valley money that has attacked critics/scientists, while also manipulating public opinion through astroturfed movements and social media influencers.

For the past year, we've analyzed hundreds of primary sources spanning nearly a decade—emails, transcripts, texts, recordings, slides & other materials—revealing how a group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic industry. Out now: "The Psychedelic Syndicate”

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-...

the more you learn about genAI, the less likely you're to use it!!! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a... I've repeatedly said in the past that meaningful change to the current disastrous reality is via combating big tech narrative & rhetoric and critical public awareness, which enables refusal/resistance

Psymposia has finally been vindicated! While we've been harassed, MAPS/Lykos supporters have known FOR A YEAR that they were pushing a false narrative that scapegoated us for the FDA's rejection of MDMA. They wanted to hide their terrible science & force politicians to approve it.

Confirmed speakers: - Albino J. Oliveira-Maia - Alessandra Martini - Alexis Goosdeel - Carolina Seybert - Jules Evans - Marion Haberkamp - Neşe Devenot - Peter Kéri - Robert Schoevers - Tiago Machado More speakers to be announced soon! #PsychedelicTherapy #Evidence #Equity #ChampalimaudFoundation

Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel published on Monday two reports concluding that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as defined by international law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I wrote about how a $20,000 psychedelic medicine training that promised education & healing ended with warring lawsuits, a hospitalized trainee, & multiple allegations of sexual assaults. Unpaywalled link for accessibility in reply www.businessinsider.com/dark-side-sh...

Talking FREE RADICALS and the discovery of nitrous oxide www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/epis...

Hamilton Morris described my FDA testimony: "It's a federal crime… This was…a knowing misrepresentation." His followers brigaded: "Nese outright lied at the MAP advisory hearing. This is federal crime" Finally, my analysis passed a review by The American Journal of Bioethics.

For this special issue, we focused specifically on institutional obligations regarding research integrity. What should funders, universities, journals, publishers, regulators be doing to minimize structural incentives to engage in research misconduct and how should they respond when it does arise?

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... “Why are people going to be willing to contribute to science and enroll in these studies if they feel like the rug can be pulled out from under them at any time?” Fernandez Lynch told me. Answer: They won't.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

This is for all the politicians, doctors, health officials and journalists who, since 2020, have been decrying the “politicization” of public health—a deeply unhelpful, misleading framing of public health that has facilitated its partisan capture and destruction now. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.

This is appalling. But how interesting that marijuana made the list and psychedelics didn't.

More of a general concern, this is the kind of scicom that facilitates an irresponsible hype around psychedelic and MDMA based therapies, and doesn't help the scientific credibility of the field.

I wrote about the NYT story that claimed “a small band of anticapitalist activists helped sink the first psychedelic compound to come before the F.D.A.” Let’s just say it was missing some important context…and it’s interesting to consider why that might be 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...

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...

Jules Evans 100% on fire 🔥 in my inbox this morning: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Jules spitting facts!: "You can tell if someone is a cultist. They’ll drop in a phrase like ‘trust the medicine’ or ‘see you on the Playa’ or ‘fuck Psymposia’ or some such telling remark. It’s like a secret handshake to other cultists."

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."

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.

Speaking to Governors last week at the White House, Trump again called for bringing back the death penalty for drug dealers. "I mean I don't know if our country is ready for it. I am ready for it, the death penalty, if you deal drugs".

Much of the psychedelic field thinks telepathy is a valid tool for psychedelic therapy. Most others think no one would take 'therapeutic' telepathy seriously. As a result, both groups think that Psymposia must be acting in bad faith for engaging in harm reduction/public education relative to group 1

The US is seeing multiple current measles outbreaks, one of which is one of the worst in years, and Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s personal organization, which he told the US Senate he would not seek to divest from, is telling people “measles has health benefits.”

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!