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might that be a problem? might there be an impact on the liver? but sort of a broader concern, kate, with psychedelic trials is that it's very hard to do a blinded trial. people generally know when they're getting the psychedelic versus when they're getting a placebo, right? unlike a lot of other medications. so can you really do a blinded trial? in fact, they asked the participants in these groups afterward, do you know what you actually received? and in the mdma group, the vast majority of people knew that they got at 94%, i believe knew that they actually, we're getting that mdma and the placebo group, most of the people knew that they weren't getting it so that's the real concern. i've been reporting on this for a long time. we spoke to this it's woman over ten years ago, rachel, who is part of one of the early trials as a young child, she had been abused, she had been raped, she had post-traumatic stress, never really got any relief and then joined this trial for mdma