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E6 - Tasting Your Own Medicine (For Science)

Oct 10, 202437 min
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Episode description

Curious humans have been trying psychoactive substances and documenting their experiences since the dawn of history. In this episode, I do a deep dive into scientific self-experimentation. Once considered the ethical thing to do for any scientist or physician working with psychoactive drugs, the practice has faded into relative obscurity. But why did things change? And what, if anything, has been lost?

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