https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/01/the-ancient-psychedelics-myth-people-tell-tourists-the-stories-they-think-are-interesting-for-them
Arguing that the recent idea of using psychedelics to treat people in mental distress comes from shamans who told tourists what tourists wanted to hear, in the last century.
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