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dominant the more positive, humane. Are there doubts that cancer curing drugs can be developed? Well, you can keep searching. You keep doing research. Are there doubts that we can deal with AIDS. There's something about the reaction to medication or biochemical alteration of the internal environment that affected psychological qualities and characteristics that seemed more threatening than research or medication--and by the way, all medication is a modification of the internal environment but people apparently now, in the feudal ages, the middle ages, they probably reacted with some degree of anxiety and threat to do that in terms of medical controls, increasing health. I have the philosophy that psychological health eventually will affect the control--
I believe you mentioned this in a much earlier interview. I think you used the term psycho-pharmacology was--might be in the future in this context.
When you ask if there any doubts. Of course. You do research in order to examine the possibility of a hypothesis. If you didn't have any doubts you wouldn't need to do the research.
Of course, hasn't it come out since the Kennedy administration that Kennedy himself was on certain medication throughout --
Sure, and Nixon. I really am surprised that you brought this back. I really was terribly surprised at the consternation which these ideas have drawn world-wide.
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