Nice post but the idea that Albert Hofmann's famous chemical ingestion was absolutely accidental is debatable. That is if you consider why he synthesized LSD-25 for the second time 5 years after it failed at the purpose for which he was researching. You would have to believe that a failed compound was accidently synthesized for the episode to fit into the theme of this. Notice the name that he gave it, LSD-25. It wasn't for whim that he included the sequence number from his notebook. It was because he had a long series of dreams revolving around the number 25 that propelled him back into the lab to figure out which compound was the 25th compound in his ergot-derived chemical quest, and of course after bicycle day, he had no more dreams of 25. This is told in his autobiographical 'LSD My Problem Child'.
Nice post but the idea that Albert Hofmann's famous chemical ingestion was absolutely accidental is debatable. That is if you consider why he synthesized LSD-25 for the second time 5 years after it failed at the purpose for which he was researching. You would have to believe that a failed compound was accidently synthesized for the episode to fit into the theme of this. Notice the name that he gave it, LSD-25. It wasn't for whim that he included the sequence number from his notebook. It was because he had a long series of dreams revolving around the number 25 that propelled him back into the lab to figure out which compound was the 25th compound in his ergot-derived chemical quest, and of course after bicycle day, he had no more dreams of 25. This is told in his autobiographical 'LSD My Problem Child'.