*Just some examples of early overlap with Maslow, HPM, Grof, Spring Grove. There’s so much more here and this is a tweet, not a book or thesis.

Some of the psychedelic/drug accounts followed by the alleged UHC assassin

Really. It’s extremely minimal/non-existent when compared to crypto volume, & trad $ laundering methods. In 2024, any serious criminal org understands it’s publicly traceable at the push of a button, and cash off-ramps are easily accessed by law enforcement.

www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-cr...

Ok I’ll stop now

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Need to set the record straight bc there’s a lot of misinfo out there from some MAPS PI’s trying to misdirect. In the discourse that unfolded this year, it was former MAPS employees who first described the org as a “cult” in BI’s 5.13 story. (Goldhill followed up in her STAT story). This matters.

The triumphant ending of Nirvan Mullick’s decade in the making Rick Doblin worship documentary was dashed by the FDA decision in an instant! And…

No one cares

Agree with many points made in this, but large chunks of the ‘psychedelic science’ space —including those promoted by Pollan—have been tangled up with RFK-adjacent pseudoscience for ages. Swinging at RFK when he’s in the spotlight is an exercise in public image.

He blocked me before even setting a profile picture 😂😅😭

For a glimpse at what’s unfolding right now, it’s worth reading The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

I’ll caveat that it’s mainly focused on the stupidity part of “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”