Psychedelia's polarized views on RFK confirmation

Jules Evans of Ecstatic Integration writes: "Anyone hoping the psychedelic community would come together in cosmic oneness after the Great Lykos Schism of 2024 may be disappointed, as the confirmation of Robert F Kennedy Junior as Secretary of Health and Human Services last week provoked starkly-polarised reactions from the field. On the one hand, the psychedelic industry is jubilant. Seconds after the US Senate voted to confirm RFK, corporate press releases rained down on me like arrows at Agincourt, as various psychedelic industry insiders rushed to tell the world what good news RFK’s appointment was for the market ... On the other hand, many of my friends in US academia at the moment are basically in the fetal position, rocking in a dark corner of the Senior Common Room ... and as a leading psychedelic researcher put it "RFK Jr. has repeatedly voiced opinions that contradict established science and circulated claims that have been disproven. It is essential that the HHS rely on scientific evidence to promote public health. These issues take precedence over anything about psychedelics."

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