Hamilton Morris
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So this company, USONA, was very, very good about employing people who would harass business opposition using moralism as their technique. They
So this company, USONA, was very, very good about employing people who would harass business opposition using moralism as their technique. They
So this company, USONA, was very, very good about employing people who would harass business opposition using moralism as their technique. They
They've branched their pharmaceutical company into, there's a for-profit, one of the owners has a for-profit called Ceruvia, and then they have all these non-profit arms that are oriented toward supposedly preventing the approval of bad patents that just happen to be patents of all of their pharmaceutical competitors. It's really actually kind of amazing.
They've branched their pharmaceutical company into, there's a for-profit, one of the owners has a for-profit called Ceruvia, and then they have all these non-profit arms that are oriented toward supposedly preventing the approval of bad patents that just happen to be patents of all of their pharmaceutical competitors. It's really actually kind of amazing.
They've branched their pharmaceutical company into, there's a for-profit, one of the owners has a for-profit called Ceruvia, and then they have all these non-profit arms that are oriented toward supposedly preventing the approval of bad patents that just happen to be patents of all of their pharmaceutical competitors. It's really actually kind of amazing.
And so they promote the work of any journalist who is writing anything negative about their competitors. And it turned out that one of the executives at USONA was paying or had paid one of the members of this group that Travis Kitchens was a member of to, again, also harass their opposition. It's pretty wild. Oh, my God.
And so they promote the work of any journalist who is writing anything negative about their competitors. And it turned out that one of the executives at USONA was paying or had paid one of the members of this group that Travis Kitchens was a member of to, again, also harass their opposition. It's pretty wild. Oh, my God.
And so they promote the work of any journalist who is writing anything negative about their competitors. And it turned out that one of the executives at USONA was paying or had paid one of the members of this group that Travis Kitchens was a member of to, again, also harass their opposition. It's pretty wild. Oh, my God.
And the same person, I don't know if you follow Michael Pollan, but the same person is Michael Pollan's major informant in all of his psychedelic reporting. And that bias is very much evident in all of Michael Pollan's stuff as well. So there's some wild, yeah, there's some really wild stuff going on. And this is like a real example of this sort of thing happening.
And the same person, I don't know if you follow Michael Pollan, but the same person is Michael Pollan's major informant in all of his psychedelic reporting. And that bias is very much evident in all of Michael Pollan's stuff as well. So there's some wild, yeah, there's some really wild stuff going on. And this is like a real example of this sort of thing happening.
And the same person, I don't know if you follow Michael Pollan, but the same person is Michael Pollan's major informant in all of his psychedelic reporting. And that bias is very much evident in all of Michael Pollan's stuff as well. So there's some wild, yeah, there's some really wild stuff going on. And this is like a real example of this sort of thing happening.
And people do that to me. And it's funny because... As an impulse, it's not necessarily a bad thing to do. The issue is that they often get it wrong. So this USONA thing is a very extreme example, and it's now 100% confirmed that this occurred. And not a single journalist has ever publicly discussed this.
And people do that to me. And it's funny because... As an impulse, it's not necessarily a bad thing to do. The issue is that they often get it wrong. So this USONA thing is a very extreme example, and it's now 100% confirmed that this occurred. And not a single journalist has ever publicly discussed this.
And people do that to me. And it's funny because... As an impulse, it's not necessarily a bad thing to do. The issue is that they often get it wrong. So this USONA thing is a very extreme example, and it's now 100% confirmed that this occurred. And not a single journalist has ever publicly discussed this.
The only narrative that has ever been publicly promoted has been USONA's narrative, which they promote publicly. through association with the grants that are given to journalists to report on psychedelics, right? There's actually like... And again, the way that I'm describing this, I want to be very cautious and not suggest that it's like purely calculated. I do think that there's a...
The only narrative that has ever been publicly promoted has been USONA's narrative, which they promote publicly. through association with the grants that are given to journalists to report on psychedelics, right? There's actually like... And again, the way that I'm describing this, I want to be very cautious and not suggest that it's like purely calculated. I do think that there's a...
The only narrative that has ever been publicly promoted has been USONA's narrative, which they promote publicly. through association with the grants that are given to journalists to report on psychedelics, right? There's actually like... And again, the way that I'm describing this, I want to be very cautious and not suggest that it's like purely calculated. I do think that there's a...
complexity in all of this. It's a little bit hard where there's a bit of self-deception at play. Maybe they really believe what they're saying, whatever, whatever, whatever. But this is one of the reasons that MDMA was not approved was this group that was in part funded by an executive at USONA, but also funded, actually two executives at USONA, but also funded by a major anti-psychedelic
complexity in all of this. It's a little bit hard where there's a bit of self-deception at play. Maybe they really believe what they're saying, whatever, whatever, whatever. But this is one of the reasons that MDMA was not approved was this group that was in part funded by an executive at USONA, but also funded, actually two executives at USONA, but also funded by a major anti-psychedelic