Word: klerman
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Commenting on the warnings issued by Dean Monro about the possible harmful affects of the drugs, Dr. Klerman stated that "on a purely statistical basis the incidence of these [harmful] effects is rather low. However, they do occur more frequently than, say, with aspirin...
...Klerman explained that the relative 'safely of psilocybin and similar drugs exists only in carefully controlled experiments. The incidence of harmful effects would be higher in cases where persons took the drugs without supervision he said...
...Klerman Describes Effects...
Interviewed by telephone, Dr. Gerald K. Klerman, a psychiatrist and assistant clinical director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, said that he and his colleagues had been doing work with psilocybin for at least eight years, but that this research, along with projects at other medical centers, had been "poisoned" by the public controversy arising from the experiments conduced by Leary and Alpert...
...reason for this, according to Klerman, was that Leary and Alpert failed to observe the rules of scientific investigation in their work with psilocybin...