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The Skeptics Guide #873 - Apr 2 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Renewed Interest in Brain Drugs?

There is renewed interest in drugs that we know do something, a something. The fact that they are also psychodalics or hallucinations, really has sort of tainted the research for many ysit used to be illegal to do. You can take a drug anddon't know if this is helping or not. And sometimes you have to take a long time to say, oh, i haven't had a depressive episode since i started this drug. It's still a subjective measure on a scale of one to ten, how do you feel? If somebody takes a drug and they say, i don't feel any differently, it's a little bit hard to know whether or not the drug is working

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