A magician-psychologist designed a study to trick sober participants into thinking they were tripping on psychedelics

Jay Olson is a stage magician and psychology researcher at University of Toronto. Given his unique background, he was recently called in to help design a scientific study in which the participants would be convinced they had taken a psychedelic compound when really they were given a placebo. — Read the rest

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