Is a powerful Silicon Valley group running a smear campaign for the psychedelic industry?
Psymposia’s four-part investigation, “The Psychedelic Syndicate,” exposes how the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative (PSFC) — a group of Silicon Valley elites who have played an instrumental role in the development of MAPS/Lykos Therapeutics and state-level psychedelic initiatives — built a coordinated network to capture the psychedelic movement and control its narrative.
After being falsely scapegoated for the FDA’s rejection of MDMA-assisted therapy, Psymposia uncovered how PSFC and its allies weaponized veterans groups, media influence, and disinformation to deflect from real safety concerns. Our report reveals how these funders have systematically reshaped the psychedelic field — and what that could mean for its future.
🔗 Read the full investigation: https://www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-syndicate-executive-summary-silicon-valley-maps-lykos-mdma-fda-billionaires/
Transcript
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[00:00] You just see all the stuff like maps has initiated the smear campaign against its opponents. There's no evidence for that. It was again organic. I know that a handful of communication firms have been hired. Robin mentioned that she's kind of like campaign manager or I don't think she used that term, but different folks have been hired for different lanes of work. the communications firms are aware of one another's areas of focus and each as I said each firm has their own charge and that we are in coordination but we're aware of what each other's lanes are and that there's understanding of what each other's tasks are at least as it relates to up until the FDA decision is expected and our work is is with the hub right as leading the rally team and thinking about psychedelics more broadly and talking and shaping narratives more broadly around the healing potential and risks around psychedelics with some support around
[01:01] The FDA work. That's our particular charge. For those of you who don't feel comfortable with particular type of messages that are going out, the best way to counter that is to sort of flood the zone with other kinds of messages, right? And when I say flood the zone, there's any number of ways of doing that. Like each of you have platforms, networks, opportunities of communicating to advance particular narratives and whether that is helpful for you to have social media language to be using regularly in the coming weeks. if you're interested in writing an op-ed, if you're potentially interested being pitched to a podcast, like all the different things, we're happy to be in partnership and working with you and collectively flooding the zone in a way that is advancing narratives that I think are helpful both for the shorter term goal of FDA, but also the longer term goal.
[01:47] Which I think is what brought us all together in terms of this hub. You just see all the stuff like maps has initiated the smear campaign against its opponents. There's no evidence for that. It was again organic. Symposi reveals how powerful Silicon Valley funders launched a coordinated PR campaign to silence opposition and protect their financial interests. Read the full report, The Psychedelic Syndicate, on our website.
