Szigeti

And although psychedelics do really seem to help patients feel better, it’s not possible to conceal from patients whether they have taken a psychedelic or placebo, says Balázs Szigeti, a psychedelics researcher at Imperial College London.

Austrian winemaker Szigeti produces a dry, bottle-fermented Klassik made from Grüner Veltliner grown in the Neusidlersee region.

Szigeti eventually garnered more than 1600 sign-ups, but once potential participants realized they’d have to procure their own psychedelics, interest ebbed, and only 246 ended up in the experiment.

This first study is like a half-time score of two-to-zero at a soccer game, Szigeti says: It’s not impossible that psychedelic microdosing might come back against the odds and show an effect, but “from what we have, it just does not look good.”

Still, Szigeti says “mushroomy” burps made it easy for the participants to guess when they’d taken actual mushrooms.