The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD after the best trial results ever recorded for the disorder, because the patients could tell they were on the drug. That decision is the cleanest proof of the psycho-history series thesis: we have turned science into a ritual, and the ritual now outranks the truth. This episode covers the 2024 FDA decision, why the placebo effect is actually the ritual of care working, why noticing may be the mechanism of action psychology cannot admit, the fake Nobel Prize in economics, Porter's Trust in Numbers, the invalid DSM, Wampold's missing active ingredient, and how institutions develop defenses exactly like people do. Then Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the IMAX projectors nobody can build anymore, and what it means that we can no longer build the things we know we need. Part one of two. Part two: oil. MDMA FDA decision, MDMA therapy PTSD, FDA rejects MDMA, psychedelic therapy, randomized controlled trial problems, placebo effect explained, placebo studies, open label placebo, evidence based practice criticism, DSM not valid, STAR-D study, Nobel Prize economics fake, Hayek Pretence of Knowledge, Theodore Porter Trust in Numbers, Bruce Wampold common factors, psychotherapy research, Christopher Nolan Odyssey, Odyssey IMAX 70mm, IMAX film projector, Bronze Age collapse, psycho-history, Jungian psychology, depth psychology, Taproot Therapy   Free resources: gettherapybirmingham.com. Support the show with code TAPROOT at Hardy Nutritionals.