BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Optimism Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 66.1% saturation with 146 hits. Analysis detected 940 faulty-reasoning hits from 221 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 100% (66 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 99.60% of the video peer group.
President Trump's signing an executive order today to speed up the research and approval of psychedelic drugs, which he says could help people struggling with mental illnesses.
The president says veterans are facing especially high rates of mental challenges.
The suicide epidemic among veterans is a national tragedy.
Since 9/11, we've lost over 21 times more veteran lives to suicide than on the battlefields.
Thousands of veterans are having to travel to Mexico or other countries to experiment with interventions that hold great promise, but for for which our knowledge is still insufficient.
This executive order will remove the legal impediments that block American researchers, scientists, physicians, and clinicians from properly studying these medicines.
The executive order states that over 14 million American adults suffer from a serious mental illness, 8 million of whom are on prescription medication for these conditions.
The order says psychedelic drugs show potential in clinical studies to address serious mental illnesses, especially for patients who have not improved with standard therapies.
Health officials say that the reforms would pave the way for the drugs, which can cause hallucinations and are largely illegal, to be reclassified after successful clinical trials.
President Trump says the US will dedicate $50 million to federal research into ibogaine, a plant-based psychoactive compound.
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