The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry

[David Morris]

This was posted (by me, I think) about a year or so ago.  Upon further
look, it seems this investigative journalist's evidence is
non-existent.  I'm not saying it didn't happen, but wouldn't the CIA
have had better test subjects than a whole town in southern France?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Also from today's Boing-Boing, or
>
> "What did they put into the Gottlieb machines?":
>
>        ON August 15th, 1951, an outbreak of hallucinations, panic
>        attacks and psychotic episodes swept through the town of
>        Saint-Pont-Esprit in southern France, hospitalizing dozens of its
>        inhabitants and leaving five people dead. Doctors concluded
>        that the incident occurred because bread in one of the town's
>        bakeries had been contaminated with ergot, a toxic fungus that
>        grows on rye. But according to investigative journalist Hank
>        Albarelli, the CIA had actually dosed the bread with d-lysergic
>        acid diethylamide-25 (LSD), an extremely potent hallucinogenic
>        drug derived from ergot, as part of a mind control research
>        project.
>
> http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/08/psychedelic_psychiatry.php
>