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good news, but: where is the control group for 'going into a special place with the expectation of a spiritual/transformative experience and spending several h
by cat199 7y ago
good news, but:
where is the control group for 'going into a special place with the expectation of a spiritual/transformative experience and spending several hours meditating on letting go of the problem'?
pretty sure that might also have a nonzero statistical success correlate.
- tasty_freeze 7y agoI don't have a citation on hand, but I know one of the early psilocybin experiments (of seminary students, so probably prone to spiritual response) used niacin as the control compound. These were drug-naive test subjects so having no response at all would have unblinded the experiment. Niacin, in enough of a dose, causes tingling, flushing, and heart rate changes.