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It sounds very... Odd? Basically they asked questionnaires to two totally unrelated groups (people who took DMT; and people who had NDEs in the past) and then

It sounds very... Odd? Basically they asked questionnaires to two totally unrelated groups (people who took DMT; and people who had NDEs in the past) and then did some ANOVA magic in SPSS and decided that they were related because people score similarly on a quiz? I'm a bit confused by how reliable this method would be. Also the sample size < 20 seems questionable to me. But this is just me with very little statistics experience so I am probably wrong in all these thoughts. And there's probably someone way more knowledgeable who can give a better opinion about the research methods and results

jarmitage 8y ago
It's not a very conclusive study for the reasons you mention. Researchers have long suspected connections between DMT and NDEs (see my other comments), but the bottleneck here is that it's still so difficult to get funding and approval to do studies with these substances (it was actually not possible at all for decades) that this is about the state-of-the-art. Hopefully this is now changing and things will progress, in the meantime this is better than nothing, perhaps unless taken out of proportion! Disclaimer: I just follow this field and have no credentials in it.
mirimir 8y ago
Yes. This is, to put it plainly, pseudo-scientific bullshit.
- fredch 8y ago
  Eh, it's a very limited study that basically says two sets of subjective effects are similar. Useless, maybe, but not pseudo.
  - mirimir 8y ago
    Many things share similarities, and aren't otherwise related.
pokemongoaway 8y ago
Yep, I don't know why they're pushing this view so hard either. Maybe it's just something we want to believe. As someone who has taken it - and knows people who have had NDEs and have taken it - I have not seen any evidence they're related. Also, DMT is found in the body, but not in the pineal glad as far as I've seen... I also don't think it is a healthy psychedelic.
denkmoon 8y ago
> then did some ANOVA magic in SPSS and decided that they were related because people score similarly on a quiz Ahh flashbacks to undergrad biology

jarmitage 8y ago

It's not a very conclusive study for the reasons you mention. Researchers have long suspected connections between DMT and NDEs (see my other comments), but the bottleneck here is that it's still so difficult to get funding and approval to do studies with these substances (it was actually not possible at all for decades) that this is about the state-of-the-art. Hopefully this is now changing and things will progress, in the meantime this is better than nothing, perhaps unless taken out of proportion! Disclaimer: I just follow this field and have no credentials in it.

mirimir 8y ago

Yes. This is, to put it plainly, pseudo-scientific bullshit.

fredch 8y ago
Eh, it's a very limited study that basically says two sets of subjective effects are similar. Useless, maybe, but not pseudo.
- mirimir 8y ago
  Many things share similarities, and aren't otherwise related.

pokemongoaway 8y ago

Yep, I don't know why they're pushing this view so hard either. Maybe it's just something we want to believe. As someone who has taken it - and knows people who have had NDEs and have taken it - I have not seen any evidence they're related. Also, DMT is found in the body, but not in the pineal glad as far as I've seen... I also don't think it is a healthy psychedelic.

denkmoon 8y ago

> then did some ANOVA magic in SPSS and decided that they were related because people score similarly on a quiz Ahh flashbacks to undergrad biology