Lol they cant even say that she died of it, only that they “couldn’t rule it out”
Comment on Magic mushroom use rises despite concerns about little known paralysis syndrome
SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 4 days agoWho to believe?
“Wood-lover’s Paralysis (WLP) is an extremely rare, but potentially fatal, toxidrome causing unpredictable muscle weakness.
Dr Simon Beck, an MD in his final year of psychiatry training, and Mr Caine Barlow MSc, a mycologist and education officer for Ethnogenesis Australis, along with Dr Monica Barratt and Dr Liam Engel, have been the first to describe Wood-lover’s Paralysis in a study published in Toxicon.
According to the Victorian Coroner’s report, released this month, WLP was potentially associated with the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.”
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Yea that’s the scare tactic bullshit I read too. Wildly unscientific.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Plenty of morons manage to bumble their way through medical school, this study is the only one to ever describe this alleged syndrome, and there are obvious political motives and extremely well documented previous examples of academics falsifying data to support drug prohibition, so I’m gonna go ahead and not believe this at all
Ilandar@lemmy.today 4 days ago
the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.
Nine Perfect Strangers?
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Well unpredictable muscle weakness is your indicator right there .
You could die from muscle paralysis in shrooms, same way you could die from being hit in the chest with a puck playing hockey at just the right millisecond in your cardiac beat.
Possible doesn’t mean likely.