
What if a Pill Can Change Your Politics or Religious Beliefs?
A new mental health treatment using the psychedelic compound psilocybin raises questions about medicine and values
Eddie Jacobs is based at the University of Oxford, where he is a research fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, and undertaking a DPhil in the Department of Psychiatry, on Bioethical Dimensions of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. He previously supported the Beckley Foundation's Psychedelic Science and Policy Programmes. He tweets @EddieTalksDrugs.
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