Scientists want to try using… [synthetic psilocybin] to revive people in vegetative states
Do [synthetic] psychedelics raise any ethical issues that are unique?
Andrew Peterson, an assistant professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University, said his gut reaction was “‘Are you tripping!?’—pun intended.” But later, he felt it was worth consideration. In the new work, Peterson and his co-author, neuroscientist Enzo Tagliazucchi, applied an ethical model called the Value-Validity Framework to the idea—a way of interrogating if a trial’s outcomes would be worth whatever burden it places on the patients. Their paper is neither an endorsement nor a disparagement of the concept, he said.
Original Article (NPR):
Scientists Want to Try Using Shrooms to Revive People in Vegetative States
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