In 1953, $240,000 could buy a whole lot of acid.

In 1953, a 43-year-old Army scientist connected to CIA biological-warfare programs became increasingly disturbed by the ...

On Thursday, the Telegraph ran an incredible story: back in the '50s, an entire French village suddenly went mad. This was not, as previously thought, due to an ergot (fungus) contamination of the ...

Conspiracies, weirdness and cutting edge science (and stupidity) this week. Let’s start arbitrarily with WW2, or rather, just afterwards. Did you know that the US allegedly killed some 1,2-million ...

Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead and her third husband Gregory Bateson believed that LSD and other psychedelic substances could enlighten the world and help save humanity from nuclear conflagration ...

Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, convened a congressional hearing titled 'Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the ...

- One of the best things about working at Popular Mechanics is that we can cover like really heady scientific and physics-related concepts. And on the other hand, talk about in the 1950s how the CIA ...

As Takaichi Arrives In Delhi, Why India Refuses To Take Sides In The Japan-China Standoff Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's three-day visit to Delhi comes as her country's standoff with China over Taiwan ...

With LSD finally gaining mainstream acceptance — just last month, the FDA granted breakthrough status to an LSD formula to treat anxiety — author Norman Ohler investigates how it took so long for the ...