(Futurism has reached out to the authors about the woman’s ability to consent to the eyebrow-raising treatment given her state.)

This is a weird gripe and seems to be the main argument of the article, as this is true of all treatment of dementia and Alzheimers or truly any severely impaired mental state... which is why the person with power of attorney makes the decision.

That all aside it literally cannot hurt if the patient is truly in 'advanced stages of Alzheimer's' as that is a living hell that absolutely no one should suffer through. Even if it just acts as palliative care during experimentation it should be allowed.

At retirement you should be allowed.

5 grams is not that fucking crazy as a treatment. They make it sound like they force fed her a fucking ounce.

And apparently she showed tons of signs of recovery. Sounds like the article writer is much more of a piece of shit for judging doctors doing their fucking job

If I'm in my 90s suffering from a terrible ailment, science the fuck out of me. Want to see if meth and coke shoved in my ass makes me alert? For science.

I would decibeli use a lot of mushrooms if I had Alzheimer's. Or not have it also.

Yeah, pretty weird thing to do if there wasn't prior literature suggesting that dose. This demonstration (it wasn't a trial or experiment), doesn't really carry much scientific value, IMO.

I felt the same way when I read the initial article reporting on this study. It's like experimenting on prisoners. Like yeah, they'll agree to most anything but the conditions that produce that consent are suspect. Interesting results but rough ethically.

Gigantic dose to me sounds like her body weight....