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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

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In place of this purely “anti-psychedelic” critique, Langlitz notes that the present discourse of critical “anti-hype” had been initiated by “forces within ” the psychedelic field, as scholars and activists raise concerns about the ethical and political impact of psychedelic medicalization and its capitalistic roots. (I

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A Precautionary Approach to Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

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attempt to complexify the notion of consent in altered states by presenting contradictory assertions that patients can be more authentic in altered states (enhanced capacity for consent) and that they can become regressed (increased need for touch but impaired capacity for consent). McLane et al.

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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.