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Re:Acid test: on drugs and science fiction (2017) by nerdponx on Thursday January 17, 2019 @10:33PM (#18936822)
I'm not sure anyone is asserting it enhances creativity in general, but it is certainly a catalyst for discovery of new ideas.
Re:Acid test: on drugs and science fiction (2017) by scottlocklin on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:26AM (#18939898)
Again, if there is any evidence for that, I'd love to see it. The fact that Kerry Mullis thought of PCR while trippin' balls isn't much more than an anecdote, and stopping to think about all the nobel-worthy work which wasn't thought up while tripping balls...

Put it another way, invention and new ideas haven't exactly increased since Albert Hoffman's big idea. You'd expect there to be a lot more cool stuff if this were really true, as there are certainly a whole lot of people who have tripped balls in the last 50-60 years.