Psymposia Aesthetics: Right-Wing Psychedelia Collage
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The crew discusses two presenters at the September 14, 2026 FDA public hearing on psychedelics, and the way that Silicon Valley and new age pseudoscience are coming together to create the back bone of the psychedelic therapy industry's ideology.
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