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To someone who has done mushrooms before, sure, they can tell. But for people with no psychedelic experience, niacin (a common stand-in) causes flushing and som
by tasty_freeze 5y ago
To someone who has done mushrooms before, sure, they can tell. But for people with no psychedelic experience, niacin (a common stand-in) causes flushing and some other effects which a patient can tell "is doing something."
IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group.
- yeetaccount 5y ago> IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group. I can find a few people right now that believe that Lord of the Rings is a historical account of medieval Europe.
- ethanbond 5y agoRight but when it comes to questions of placebo, the belief is what matters.
- yeetaccount 5y agoPeople have sniffed my socks and thought they huffed ether.