CHAPTER 04

Following Instructions and Going with the Flow

and produced babies while taking LSD. I know of these children today and they are really delightful people. There is no sign of damage whatsoever.

I am reminded of a cartoon that appeared in Cavalier magazine at that time during the height of the publie controversy: A long-haired boy is looking up at a poster, and says, "They're grasping at straws." The poster is a picture of an adolescent with a big sign across it saying "LSD causes acne."

As the national negative program reached its height, the enthusiasm for proving LSD damaging captured the imagination of many scicntists and they set out to prove that it was damaging without realiy knowing what they were domg. Careful subsequent testig proved these people to be overenthusiastic and quite wrong in their conclusions. If you wish to check these points, look at the papers published from Spring Grove State Hospital by the LSD research group.5

This then is the account of my transition period from the 1964-1966 series of experiments with LSD in the tank and the temporary withdrawal of my research interest in the dolphin communication study.

5: Papers by Drs. Walter Pahnke, Stanislaf Orof, Charles Savage, ard Albert Kurland from the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Catonsville, Md.

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