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Paul Feyerabend argued for 'Epistemological Anarchism': that in order to do truly good science, one can't rule out alternative methods, ad hoc hypotheses, mythology, religion and wishful thinking. Using the example of Galileo, he shows how science's greatest strides are made by deliberately being "unscientific" in the way that court scientists tend to think nowadays.

Epistemological Anarchism is a total rejection of the so-called "demarcation problem": the attempt by early 20th century philosophers to distinguish "science" from other realms. It overturns the assumptions of logical positivism and returns us to the conception of knowledge held by antiquity, the scholastics, the Renaissance and everyone else: science can't rule out its perceived opponents by technicality or it would have also undermined the very "pseudoscientists" that developed us our scientific conceptions of today.

I ended up going to my local library, connecting to their Wi-Fi, and finding a less-than-official audiobook version of this.

New book, yeah!

Around mid-2024, I bought this book and read about half of it, and I ended up finding and reading the rest through an alternative online platform in .pdf format. The cover is a pretty clear hint about where you might find a digital copy.

I started reading this around mid-2021 but only got about 17% through it. Then I found a way to listen to the rest online through some unofficial channels.

This book is Albert Hofmann’s personal diary called LSD: My Problem Child. I started reading it sometime around March 2024 but don’t remember the exact date. I finished it around May Day 2024. Psychedelics, especially LSD, are one of my favorite subjects.

I started reading this and have finished half of it, I plan to finish the rest soon.

I listened to the audiobook of this via less-than-legal means back in 2023.

I started reading this sometime in mid 2024.

I got this book back in Christmas of 2018, so I don’t remember exactly when I first read it, but I have, and recently I listened to the audiobook again.

I don’t remember the exact date, but I read this last year during peak shroom season in autumn, when mushrooms were everywhere. It’s a short, practical guide focused on liberty caps (Psilocybe semilanceata), covering harm reduction, set and setting, and how to avoid picking the wrong mushrooms.