Neuroscientists and Psychodelics

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A l s was published in one of the top journals in the world. But few years ago, their work was completely discredited. The salution basically destroyed their careers. Does that mean they're trying to sort of redeem themselves with this new experiment? I think so.

A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But as we learned in an episode earlier this year, the scientists behind it have a checkered past.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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