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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

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In my experience of working with Psymposia since 2019 , there has been a sea change in the broader field’s reception of critical perspectives on psychedelic medicine over the past year. As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication.

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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

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Death” by some — has made it his mission to “ demedicalize death ” by removing doctors from the process of assisted suicide and bringing suicide devices directly into the hands of individuals seeking to end their own lives. Could the United States be next? Dr. Philip Nitschke — nicknamed “Dr. ending human life).

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

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In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.