In an email to the Psychedelic Communications Hub on June 18, 2024—2 weeks after the FDA advisory committee voted against approving Lykos' MDMA aplication—Robyn Thomas enlisted the Hub’s support for a “Crisis Communications Plan” covering the lead-up to the FDA’s ultimate approval or rejection. 1/7
People often claim psychedelics have been used globally, for millennia, & in rituals of psychological healing.
In today's Guardian Long Read, I show what these stories get wrong & why the reality is far more interesting: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
From "Shamanism: The Timeless Religion"
Power is central to health care interactions - but how? I wrote about language and power in my commentary article that was published this morning in AJOB. Check out the link below!
#bioethics #anthropology #linguisticanthropology #pragmatics #ideology
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We need a new approach to dealing with #psychedelic #hype. I just published about the benefits of a "care approach" to hype in the Backchannels blog by @4sweb.bsky.social. Let me know what you think!
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#psychedelicstudies #bioethics #sts #careethics #caretheory
I recently published a short commentary on #psychedelic #ethics in AJOB. I'm so glad I got to bring insights from my #ethnographic fieldwork into this conversation. I've learned so much from my interlocutors, and I hope other #bioethicists will too!
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