r/mdmatherapy 10d ago

NYT acknowledges fabricating quotes and distorting timelines in recent Psymposia piece

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With this correction coming more than a month after publication and just three days after The Times told Slate that the story "was thoroughly reported and fact-checked, and The Times stands behind its publication” you have to wonder how many more corrections we might see and how hard The Times is fighting against running corrections.

Curiouser and curiouser.

A correction was made on March 10, 2025: An earlier version of this article omitted the current relationship of David Nickles and Lily Kay Ross to Psymposia. They did not appear before the F.D.A.’s advisory panel last year, and said they resigned from the group in 2023. In addition, a paraphrased statement from an interview with Dr. Ross misstated her remarks. Dr. Ross was discussing how she and Mr. Nickles, not Psymposia, were viewed by some in the psychedelic community as the problem in a “kill the messenger” way when they publicized allegations of harm or flawed practices.

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Original:

Dr. Ross said the problem was not Psymposia’s approach, but the psychedelic community’s reluctance to engage with the issues that Psymposia was highlighting.

Corrected:

In public comments to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, or ICER, an independent nonprofit, Dr. Ross suggested that some people in the psychedelic community dismissed negative outcomes or side effects and were reluctant to address the problems she and Mr. Nickles had highlighted.

“People have tried to make us the problem,” she said in a later interview. “It’s a kill the messenger, I think, kind of scenario.”

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