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Ruth Mechaneck

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LSD Research: The Impact of Lay Publicity

American Journal of Psychiatry November 1, 1968 Charles Clay Dahlberg, Ruth Mechaneck, Stanley Feldstein 25 citations

An inquiry was sent to 29 investigators conducting research involving the use of LSD or other hallucinogens, in an effort to determine what effects publicity about LSD may have had upon their research. Nineteen of the investigators reported that the publicity had negatively affected the recruitment of "appropriate" subjects, the attitudes of already participating subjects, the behavior of...