If psychedelics were to quicken the feats in science, would you applaud the use?

I have a difficult time imagining breakthroughs in the hard sciences by using psychedelics. It’s possible in the soft sciences like sociology, psychology, etc.

Your question implies a huge leap of faith – that psychedelics would in fact, accelerate scientific discovery. That’s a HUGE if.

Still, if it were proven true, then why not? Creative people have all sorts of strange habits. Authors in the 1800s regularly took various drugs Hemingway was a huge drinker. But that didn’t stop them from being creative and thinking well.

Sure, but in the words of the legendary Carl Sagan, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” I follow the research on psychedelics pretty closely and so far remain a skeptic in many respects.

Interesting answers, Jellies, thank you!

“ FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.”

Steve Jobs on LSD: https://youtu.be/2CFUmV5PJVU