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Your point? Merck & Bayer have done exponentially more work than that - and they invented it. Reading this article it sounds like he invented it. People have
by illumen 12y ago
Your point? Merck & Bayer have done exponentially more work than that - and they invented it. Reading this article it sounds like he invented it. People have been drinking the bread juice, or eating the mushrooms for millennia and writing about it. Reading this article, it sounds like he started some sort of drug movement. Discos were around before him. Sure, he did a lot of work in the area, but he gets a lot of credit for things he didn't do.
Next you'll be telling me Americans made the first flying plane, or made the first working digital computer, the transistor, or invented the wheel?
This is a misleading article from an academic institution.
- mr_sturd 12y agoIn that case, I'd be interested to read their literature around MDMA and compounds of the 2C-X variety.
- Nursie 12y ago>> he gets a lot of credit for things he didn't do. He found and published multiple, relatively simple synthesis routes for some pre-existing substances and many, many psychoactive substances that had never been seen before. He pioneered exploration into their effects and he shared the knowledge with the world, despite the censorious wishes of worldwide governments and law enforcement. That makes him pretty unique and special in my book.