Mastodawn

Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏May 14, 2024

I'm really interested in history and journalism that look at the biases that are built into some scientific studies. I mean the innocent and unintentional kind of biases. Here's the case of #MDMA / ecstasy.

We should not be surprised that whoever pays for the research tends to get the results they hoped for. For example "the #WarOnDrugs" in the 1980s-90s found terrible harm from MDMA; and now in the 2020s, "We Want Insurers to Start Paying for New Mental Health Therapies" find amazing benefits, with no side effects!

Unfortunately, this is the Internet. So looking at biases and errors in #science leads quickly into #conspiracy theories, and I tune out. This quote about suggestibility is fascinating, though.
Full article:
https://archive.is/qSzqY

#psychology #criticalthinking #warondrugs #mdmastudy

AlterEuropaeer Jun 20, 2023

Höcke benötigt also einfach nur eine Ecstasy-Therapie ... Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich das Nazi-Problem so einfach lösen lässt?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230614-how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist

https://www.insider.com/white-supremacist-took-mdma-renounces-beliefs-study-2023-6

#mdmastudy

How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist

Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs.

BBC