Sigmund troyd was overrated in academic psychology for a long time. Psychadelics have an incredibly positive track record intuns i richingpeople's live verses damaging them. I think the moral panic against drugs in the sixties through the eighties was too much, and therefore, psychodelic drugs are now underrated.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on morality, politics, disgust, how to maintain free speech on campus, the enriching effects of LSD, antiparsimonialism, and why economists set all the interesting variables to zero.
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