Reply #10: well... [View All]

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...if we can't know whether or not the research was successful it seems no one can know anything either way. In that case, saying people are "ostriches" or "ignorant" doesn't seem very fair, does it? Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm not - you don't KNOW either way, do you?

In the absence of the necessary information, you choose to assume one thing and I choose to assume another. So let's talk about why we each assume what we do.

In my mind, it makes sense that they didn't accomplish much with the research because no one else has. The CIA was not alone in researching LSD, and anything they might've learned in their research is something independent researchers and academics would've come across on their own by now.

What's more, I suspect if the US had this sort of capability we'd use it much more often. Assasinating Saddam would've been easier, getting the leaders of foreign countries to back our war would've been easier....basically I just don't see any evidence right now that the CIA has this sort of power.

So then - why do you assume they do?