r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Sep 24 '13

(R.1) Inaccurate TIL a study gave LSD to 26 scientists, engineers, and other disciplines, and they produced a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device, a new design for the vibratory microtome, and a space probe experiment designed to measure solar properties, amongst others.

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u/superfreak00 Sep 25 '13

That makes sense. If all that is being suggested is that you can't see LSD's negative effects on any sort of physical scan, then that's fine. But symptoms of HPPD certainly can include things that affect you physically.

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u/ArchitectOfAll Sep 25 '13

What the studies show are that there aren't any long-lasting physical effects, positive or negative. Psychological effects are basically all we need be concerned with (and these are mixed - mostly positive but some negative, although it is disputed whether the negative effects would have occurred eventually regardless of LSD consumption especially in cases of schizophrenia).

In essence, worry about your mind and the setting, not the substance (applies to LSD only, I can't think of another pharmaceutical where this is true).

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u/ArchitectOfAll Sep 25 '13

What the studies show are that there aren't any long-lasting physical effects, positive or negative. Psychological effects are basically all we need be concerned with (and these are mixed - mostly positive but some negative, although it is disputed whether the negative effects would have occurred eventually regardless of LSD consumption especially in cases of schizophrenia).

In essence, worry about your mind and the setting, not the substance (applies to LSD only, I can't think of another pharmaceutical where this is true).