This is sadly anecdotal because I can't find a reference online, but there was a story a decade or two ago about someone who sold completely inert blotting paper tabs at a festival.
No LSD, nothing at all. 100% placebo.
And people still tripped on them - to the extent that some of them came back and wanted to buy more, telling him how amazing the LSD was.
Perhaps the science is a little less straightforward than it seems.
That's what hippies call the setting. That's literally what the hip in hippie means to me, the ridiculous enthusiasm. I don't mean offense, but I find other words for the kind of careful optimism that is necessary to keep this ignorant excitement going.
That said, the article's link to the paper seems broken. Because there's no correct link to the paper yet in this discussion, my impression that most comments here don't really hold scientific merit gets stronger. I will admit that I don't understand enough of statistics to judge the methods used, if there was any control group at all.
No LSD, nothing at all. 100% placebo.
And people still tripped on them - to the extent that some of them came back and wanted to buy more, telling him how amazing the LSD was.
Perhaps the science is a little less straightforward than it seems.