Comment by asveikau
8 hours ago
Ironically enough, the psychedelic field sort of defies some scientific analysis, so could be construed as "anti-science". I've seen some commentary that it's difficult to test. As an example, you can't really do a double blind study with a placebo because it's obvious to everybody who got the drug.
The same could be said for a lot of drugs that have strong side effects, just one difference here is the main "side effects" are something some people consider fun. Though you could still do double-blind for comparing the effectiveness of different psychedelics, e.g comparing LSD to Psilocybin.
Niacin works well as an 'active placebo'.
just because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though.
like idk, how do you do double blind studies of astronomical phenomena?
Yeah I know. I'm pulling that out as an example.
It's also true that people in the psychedelic world talk about non-reproducible aspects of the trip quite a bit. "Set and setting" and so forth.
> just because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though.
Shhh, non-scientists don't know that.
Double blind studies became a requirement in order to protect the people from the greed of pharmaceutica companies and their natural desire to cut corners in research.