Word: alpert
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...drug-manufacturer is responsible for determining whether the psychiatrist or psychologist is properly qualified, on the basis of questionnaires filed by the researcher. Sandoz Pharmaceutical of New Jersey, which accomplished the first synthesis of LSD, is providing the psilocybin used by Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, and Timothy Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, in their research on graduate student subjects...
There is a factual misstatement which appeared in an article on Thursday, March 15, that I should like to correct. You stated "Alpert also asserted that the Food and Drug Administration. The University Health Services, and the synthesizer of psilocybin have approved the experiments." I did not say that and it is not true. None of these organization are set up to pass judgment on research. What I did say was (1) the Food and Drug Administration knows of our work and a discussion with them brought to light no illegality in our research activities, (2) the University Health Services...
...wish to make these corrections in order that the function of these agencies in no way be misinterpreted by your readers. Thank you. Richard Alpert, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology...
...March 17 CRIMSON Mr. Alpert and Mr. Leary put their finger on one of the leading objections to the psilocybin research. They say that psychological change, positive or negative depending on the individual's response to the experiment, will occur. They continue with the statement that when, as a result of the drug's action the mind enters a new region these regions may be returned to afterwards...
...comment should be made about academic values, such as freedom in research, it should be that important values are being threatened by public critics of the psilocybin research who would make a premature ethical judgment. Leary, Alpert and the graduate students working with them are as capable as anyone else of making decisions as to the advisability of using certain research procedures; they are exploring a field in which it might be a mistake to be bound and restricted by traditional methods. In the long run, the proof will be, and should be, in the pudding. Researchers will always...