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...diagnose obscure diseases and to use computers in new ways in medicine. Among those interviewed: Drs. Christian Anfinsen and Edward Evarts of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Leo Tick of New York University, Dr. John C. Seed of Montefiore Center in New York City, and Dr. Jerome Lettvin of M.I.T...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "LSD: Lettvin v. Leary." A pseudopsychedelic trip complete with whirling lights and a confrontation between Head Guru Timothy Leary and M.I.T. Physiology Professor Jerome Lettvin...
...Lettvin put on a show of his own without slides. He asked himself whether he would trade places with Leary, who claimed he was ecstatic. "Why don't I? Is it love of the real world? Is it that my own ego would be destroyed?" Lettvin said he objected to LSD on moral grounds, since certain drugs cause permanent suspension of judgment. To opt for saying "so what?" he argued, was an unbearable decision...
...three per cent of the cases he had seen, Lettvin said, taking drugs had brought on a form of epilepsy, similar to the type which affilicted Charles Whitman, the Texas sniper. "Real Dostoyevsky if you want to see what it is like," he recommended...
...fifty takers of LSD suffers brain damage, Lettvin charged, "I cannot see you, Tim, as anything but the tool of the devil...