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David Nutt
Fierce defender of science-based policy
David Nutt is director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, London and the author of Psychedelics.

David Nutt is director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, London and the author of Psychedelics.
David Nutt Videos

Doctors in the Age of Google
Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?

The future of psychedelic research and therapy
The fight for the right to research

The Science of Psychedelics
David Nutt | Can drugs transform mental health?

Silenced for following the science
An interview with David Nutt

Science… Fiction?
The future of science
David Nutt Articles
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Democracy and Drugs
Should we legalise psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness?

Rationality and Drugs
Why our current policy to drugs is nonsense

Getting high and being human
Debating drug law reform

Drugs, death and hypocrisy
Can and should we amend our drug policy?

Dangerous desires
Must we adopt a new attitude to social drugs?

Silenced for following the science
An interview with David Nutt

The future of psychedelic research and therapy
The fight for the right to research

Drugs: the case for decriminalisation
The best choice for drug law reform

The age of anxiety
COVID-19 legacy will be psychiatric
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Me, myself and others

Knowing what to believe
Free will: an impossible reality

What physicists get wrong about consciousness

The brain doesn't create consciousness

Are you responsible for your unconscious self?

The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink

Moral responsibility without free will

Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Free will or no free will, punishment is justified

The impotence of reason

Schrödinger and the conscious universe

Why panpsychism is baloney

Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams

The free will debate has real-world consequences

Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion

Consciousness may not require a brain

Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious

Pinker on the power of irrationality

Future AI in the therapist's chair

When are intuitions a good guide to reality?

Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free

Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

The absurdity of mind as machine

Is rationality a fiction?

Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness

Bias doesn't always undermine truth

Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy

Free will is an invention