Bogus Science - The LSD-Chromosome Scare

Fraser Clark reminds us of the 1967 scare that Science Magazine published about LSD causing chromosome damage.

"THE HIDDEN EVILS OF LSD", screamed the Saturday Evening Post, Aug 12, 1967.

"By evening, the charge that LSD could break chromosomes was in all the nation's media." Peter Stafford: ‘Psychedelics Encyclopedia.’

But the entire story was basically a government-funded scam based on the examination of a single patient!

When I had my first child, my Mother was mortified that my previous lsd use (not while pregnant) would produce a deformed baby because of the bogus stories that started in 1967. It didn't.

Somebody wanted a whole generation to be scared straight. It worked about as good as those warnings on a pack of cigarettes do.

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