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DNA was not discovered on LSD: https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/blogs/psychedelic-press-blog/23736769-francis-crick-dna-lsd-psychedelic-history-in-the-age-of-sci

• nicoco 4y ago
  Probable confusion with Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR and LSD advocate. Not the best argument for the safeness of psychedelics though, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Views_on_HIV/AIDS_and_climate_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis#Views_on_HIV/AIDS_...
• boppo1 4y ago
  Yep. I'm not going to bother replying or arguing with the posters that are touting psychedelics as causing breakthroughs in science and art. It's a common claim and it's exhausting. When I was a teenager, I heard the claim and believed it. All these musicians and artists I looked up to did psychedelics! So I took psychedelics! What I came to find, however, was that all of those artists had some sort of classical training early in life and a decade of working hard touring/painting and building their professional practice. The drugs came after, not before. I'll grant that stimulants may have made positive contributions. Oh how I love/hate stimulants.
  • bambataa 4y ago
    That seems like a really odd conclusion to draw. I’m not aware of anyone arguing that psychedelics turned non-artists into great artists. Of course the competence comes first. The Beatles were highly skilled musicians before taking drugs, but it seems reasonable that attempting to recreate the psychedelic experience on tape pushed them towards new sounds and techniques that they wouldn’t have otherwise tried.