PSMS (Puget Sound Mycolological Society) member here... Stamets is widely regarded as a crank and makes a lot of mostly unsubstantiated claims about fungi. He

PSMS (Puget Sound Mycolological Society) member here... Stamets is widely regarded as a crank and makes a lot of mostly unsubstantiated claims about fungi. He is a fun guy (lol fungi) to talk to but you can't take anything he says too seriously. At least without further research of your own. Stamets is an interesting speaker, as far as I know always welcome at PSMS events, but the default impression most people in the pacific northwest mycology community have of stamets is that he confabulates a lot.