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Russell
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Researching, writing, doodling (all views expressed are solely my own.)
He is the first to admit he has no training in journalism or journalistic ethics and has made it up as he goes.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
While he has done journalistic work, imo he’s not a journalist first and foremost.

He’s the biggest spin artist and PR mouth for the psychedelic pharma industry.

Sometimes that involves rightfully destigmatizing the drugs, other times it involves painting whistleblowers as leftist terrorists.
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
He has been well informed of the lies he continues spreading to this day. 🤷‍♂️
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For example, the author makes numerous references to Sasha Sisko as being related to Psymposia.

They are not and never have been part of Psymposia.

That’s part of the ongoing false narrative being spread by people like Hamilton, who has described Sasha as a “main Psymposia person.”
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This author appears to be taking broad critiques of the therapy protocol personally, and incorrectly attributing the arguments and behavior of people with no relation to Psymposia with Psymposia.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Neşe’s point has never been that everyone in the trials had a negative experience, was abused, or should be discredited. Their point is that many foundational materials & practices the MAPS/Lykos protocol is built on—which they were trying to codify as standard practice—allow for abuse of patients.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This isn’t even the first time Hamilton has been caught lying about a publication he dislikes being Usona-funded. A few years ago he was incorrectly saying Psychedelic Alpha was also secretly funded by Usona lol.
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Hamilton also fully hand waives away all the documented accusations of elder abuse by a MAPS board member against Sarlo’s father because it fits his narrative to deny them.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
She donated to us with no strings attached because of our harm reduction work throughout the years and has donated to numerous other psychedelic harm redux projects in the space.

We have been criticizing MAPS/Lykos since well before that donation.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Re: Sarlo. Hamilton claims we were paid by Susie Sarlo to run some quid-pro-quo campaign to tank MDMA therapy because she was mad that her father left money to MAPS, which is bs.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Walkback of Usona funding claims:
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This article doesn’t say Hamilton killed him, but it does reveal some really fucked up stuff Hamilton said to the guy.
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Russell
Hamilton Morris cannot let Psymposia speak to any of the claims he makes about us, because he will be revealed to be outright lying and willfully misinterpreting our analyses of the space.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hamilton Morris cannot let Psymposia speak to any of the claims he makes about us, because he will be revealed to be outright lying and willfully misinterpreting our analyses of the space.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We have reached out to Channel 5 asking to be allowed comment on any of the endless false claims in that interview and they’ve never returned an email.

Some journalistic integrity Channel 5 and Hamilton have. /s
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hamilton has also walked back his claims that we were funded by Usona—saying he was talking about less than $1,000 donation someone who once worked with the company, not the company itself. This correction make it in the interview framed around this that over a million people have now seen? Ofc not.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
And some inside baseball on the journalistic integrity of that interview? Neither Andrew nor Hamilton has, to this day, reached out to us to verify a single claim they’ve made.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
They released these explicitly false accusations the day after the Charlie Kirk shooting, while the Trump admin was essentially telling their base to go harass and attack leftists.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I am part of Psymposia and we are very much still around, not imploded lol. If the Ch 5 interview is your example of journalistic integrity l don’t know what to say. Hamilton baselessly accused us of being leftist ‘terrorists’ funded by a pharma company which has never funded us.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Honestly no. The most memorable thing I came away with was a gaggle of rich people, including the CEO of Salesforce, talking about how there is too many bioethicists and regulators in biotech while Bryan Johnson essentially slept on screen under a weighted blanket and eye mask.
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A fair amount unfortunately 😂
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bryan sleeps while rich guys complain about how biotech has too many ethicists and regulations lol
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Riveting content
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
That Ch 5 interview is exactly what I’m talking about when I say Hamilton Morris’ fans and sycophants are willing to ignore his numerous conflicts of interest and pro-industry biases while he preaches conspiracy theories and lies to them.
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM