Dr. Keith Humphreys

Unlike with psychedelics, you really can fool people that they're getting RTMS.

You know, it's always tough to interpret psychedelic religion because everybody knows when they've gotten a psychedelic drug.

The people in the control experiment know they're in the control experiment.

That's correct, but not true in RTMS.

You can put these coils on the head.

I've actually tried it and it feels like something's happening and it's just a sham.

And when you ask people in the end, guess which condition they're in, they can't guess.

So this is really some good science.

And that's where I would go next if I were, I would look at the SAINT protocol is the name of it.

Maybe we can, I don't know if we can put it.

No, we shouldn't do that.

There's lots of people who benefit from SSRIs, there's no question.

No, I don't believe that the mass shooting thing... I mean, it doesn't fit the data where mass shootings are.

I mean, there was just a mass shooting in Australia, that is so rare that you see these in developed countries other than the United States.

That was their first mass shooting in 30 years.

There's plenty of people take SSRIs in Australia, why weren't there mass shootings?

Europe, many people take SSRIs, they don't have the level of mass shootings.

So I don't think that is the explanatory variable.

I mean, I think the explanatory variable is that it's extremely easy to get high-powered weaponry in our country and it's harder pretty much in the rest of the developing world.

Yeah, but you would not go 30, if there were significant risk, you wouldn't go 30 years without a mass shooting in a country of Australia where they have 25, 30 million people in it.