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!

"Pseudoscience is present when you use the superficial techniques of science, like meta-analysis or randomized trials, *in the service of supporting your own beliefs, rather than seeking to refute those beliefs.*"

If the situation was hopeless the propaganda wouldn’t be necessary.

Is this supposed to be science journalism? It reads more like a gossip magazine. And is stained by factual errors (there’s a conspicuous lack of evidence for the notion that MDMA-AP is more effective than existing evidence-based treatments) and trivialization of sexual abuse.

David Bronner is a board member of MAPS and PSFC, which are allies of the journalists behind the NYT hit piece. No wonder they are trying so hard to controversialize whistleblowers.

My personal response to the propagandistic & defamatory New York Times article on Psymposia @psymposia.bsky.social, which violated the Times' editorial standards. This transparently partisan attack politicized whistleblowers to appeal to the Trump administration on behalf of a pharmaceutical company

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent two days of confirmation hearings claiming not to hold positions he's held for years, reversing statements he previously made, and denying saying things he said. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social, we examined some of the wilder ones: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Psymposia's livestream called it 4 years ago: "Psychedelia is Ripe for Fascist Creep" www.youtube.com/live/a7PiNw0...

I want to make it clear that Biden’s expansion of the detention facilities in the U.S., as well as Obamas bullshit with Guantanamo, made this possible. When you see so many people yelling that liberal policy leads to fascism, this is what we mean.

hey just for no reason here's an article I wrote awhile back about go bags and why you should have one and what might go in one. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/get-yourse...

There's a lot of overwhelming, bad things out there right now But this work deserves to be celebrated. Check out the rad #harmreduction work done by NYC drug checking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

The AI hype & psychedelic hype are interconnected, & they're serving the same oligarch interests. I've learned a lot about how propaganda works by watching it all unfold. Aside from direct parallels, it's clear that psychedelics have exacerbated the grandiose sci-fi fantasies that prop up the AI con

Setting quotas of arrests per day. You know what happens when you have a quota to meet? Scoop them up and let the court sort it out. They will be grabbing anyone they can. No proof of citizenship on your person? Too bad. That’s an arrest. Look “illegal?” Explain it to the court someday.

An incredible admission by these authors that "efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption." But the upshot of this research is that de-mystification works. It's not magic, folks.

what ChatGPT is genuinely good at right now is quickly producing large amounts of plausible-sounding text. if your job is to, e.g., produce generic copy for mass communications, there’s probably utility there. but the gap between what it does and how its proponents talk about it is enormous.

One of my friends has a grant from the #FDA to look at disparities in clinical trial research and just submitted a manuscript with the findings. She was told today by the collaborators from the #FDA to rescind it. #Censorhip has started, we are living in authoritarian government.

CNN has now confirmed this. www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/h...

Relatedly, please remember that a federal appeals court recently ruled that cops can compell you to use biometrics to unlock your phone. Passwords, pins, or patterns, people.

A completely compelling talk on the right, billionaires and their psychedelic vision. So scary, it's best viewed with the lights on.

"Right-Wing Psychedelia" (w/ @brianpace.bsky.social) was not just a call to question the oligarchs who were promising democratic utopia through psychedelic medicine. We specifically predicted that the psychedelic field would take a rightward, reactionary bend. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...