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Podcast: Mind Body Health & Politics
Episode: The Scientists Who Drank Their Own Medicine - Mike Jay
Description: Discover how scientific self-experimentation went from heroic standard practice to career-ending stigma—and what we lost about consciousness research in the process.Why 19th-century scientists routinely self-experimented with psychoactive substancesHow the 1962 FDA amendments changed scientific culture foreverThe underground networks continuing psychedelic research outside institutionsWhat the MDMA therapy rejection reveals about modern scientific politicsLinks & Resources:"Psychonauts" by Mike Jay"Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science"Full interview available on Mind Body Health & Politics po...