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Psychedelics have aided scientific discovery

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BristolRob

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Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis has been explicit that it was while he was on LSD that he discovered how to develop the PCR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

Francis Crick is reported to have told a fellow scientist that he was on LSD when he discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
http://www.hallucinogens.com/lsd/francis-crick.html

Does anyone know of any other cases where famous scientists or artists have reported that their use of psychedelics aided their creations/discoveries?
 
there's a new 2009 doc from national geopraphic about science and LSD. None of that hippy bullshit from the history channel...well a little, but they still talk about the science behind the dumbfucks twirling their burning man sticks. Anyways, they meantion those people, and most notibly, Steve Jobs.
 
that's pretty cool. i knew about Crick, but didn't know about the PCR guy.
it's funny, i'm sitting in lab (where i routinely do PCRs) reading this right now.

maybe someday i'll make a scientific breakthrough and be able to credit some of my insight to LSD..
 
meh, wouldn't do any good. They know I like my drugs as it is. (and don't mind really) but I try to stay off the topic unless something randomly comes up where I didn't initiate the discussion.
 
porkstock said:
that's pretty cool. I knew about crick, but didn't know about the pcr guy.
It's funny, i'm sitting in lab (where i routinely do pcrs) reading this right now.

Maybe someday i'll make a scientific breakthrough and be able to credit some of my insight to lsd..
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:) :)
 
I recommend everyone to read
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis

veeeery good book. The man has what I would consider a very psychedelic mindset
 
Shambles said:
Doubt it or he'd be less of a prick. Same goes for Steve Jobs ;)

Think we already have a near-identical thread to this but buggered if I remember what it was called. Answers on a postcard please, folks :)
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Steve Jobs used LSD in India, before Apple or even the Break-Out story with him and Woz at Atari. While he may be a symbol of corporate cashing in on yuppie culture today, he was very much a counterculture type in the 60's. He became a Buddhist hippie and dropped out of college.

A lot of the early computer revolution folks were psychedelic users. There's an old quote in geek culture about the early days...

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX."

Other names aren't popping to mind immediately but I'm sure if you do some Googling on various big names in the history of software and web development, you'll find a number of documented LSD users.
 
Whatever Steve Jobs may or may not be doing in the best interest of the public but rather his profit oriented company he said taking acid was one of the most imporant experiences of his life.
After saying this I realize that scientific discovery has absolutely diddly squat to do with this.
 
Thanks, though lacking relevance to the topic it might belong better in the Media Thread.
 
That-Strange-Guy said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E62nkpcWNo4 this is part 1/4 of a DMT documentary, they are saying that this drug could be the answer to mummification, pyramids in south africa and in egypt, a gateway to another consiousness away from this "awake" state, and possibly the answers to the afterlife, it also explains the similaritys of the meditation state and psychedelic drugs and also any other spiritual beliefs and even the 3rd eye.
I promise an educational mind changing experience from this video.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but that video is some quacked-out pseudoscience. :\ Really the complete antithesis of educational....
 
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