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Turn on, tune in, cash out … The US right used to fear psychedelics. Now it wants to sell them | Kojo Koram

28 April at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Hallucinogens have come a long way from the 60s counterculture to Trump’s White House – propelled by veterans’ lobbying and Silicon Valley capital

Kojo Koram’s new book, The Next Fix: Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs, is out on 4 June

On 13 May 1966, a US Senate subcommittee questioned a former Harvard clinical psychologist, considered by many to be “the most dangerous man in...

The AI policy that AI broke

28 April at 15:24 PM, via TechCentral

From US courtrooms to Australian government reports, hallucinated citations are everywhere. Pretoria has now joined the club.

Pivotal week for US tech stocks

28 April at 13:08 PM, via TechCentral

Four tech giants pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI report results this week – and investors want signs of returns.

If it feels like the world is rejecting science and truth, here are five ways to fight back | Helen Pearson

28 April at 12:20 PM, via The Guardian

All of us can choose to consider facts, not vibes, in our next decision. One simple hack is go and look up some easily accessible peer-reviewed studies

Helen Pearson is an editor for Nature and author of Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works

In 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. They argued that...

Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation

28 April at 07:29 AM, via The Guardian

Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovation

The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf...

What is a food intolerance, and how do you know if you have one? – podcast

28 April at 06:00 AM, via The Guardian

Social media is awash with content about food intolerances and the symptoms to look out for. But figuring out whether you actually have one, and what’s triggering it, is surprisingly difficult. One avenue people are gravitating towards is at-home testing. Madeleine Finlay sits down with health and lifestyle journalist Rebecca Seal to unpick the science behind these tests. Rebecca explains how...

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