Joe Rogan on history: what the evidence says · JRE #1315
SUBJECT: HISTORY
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
Ted Kaczynski was right. This is something that I think about sometimes when I get really high, that Ted Kaczynski was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Theodore Kaczynski, a Harvard-educated mathematician who later became known as the Unabomber, was a student at Harvard from 1958 to 1962. During that time he was one of about 22 undergraduates who took part in a multi-year psychological study run by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray, involving stressful, deliberately hostile mock interrogation sessions rather than the administration of psychedelic drugs. Harvard's actual LSD-related research in that same era was a separate program, run by lecturers Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert starting around 1960, giving psilocybin and LSD to student volunteers independent of Murray's personality study (though Murray held a supervisory role over both projects). No verified source documents Kaczynski being dosed with LSD as part of the Murray experiments, and historical accounts describe the two Harvard programs as institutionally distinct. The claim conflates Kaczynski's well-documented participation in Murray's abusive, non-drug personality study with the era's separate LSD research at Harvard, making the specific "LSD studies" characterization misleading.