Talk:David E. Nichols

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Old deletion debate: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/David E. Nichols

1. == what more is needed? ==

I'm in a position to possibly expand this article. What more is needed for it? More on what his lab does? More on him?

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POV?

Among scientists, he is considered to be the world's top expert on the chemistry and pharmacology of psychedelics.

Actually, the generic class of "scientists" contains rather few people who have much of a clue about the pharmacology of psychedelics or even the relative cluefulness of experts in the field. Maybe the statement should be qualified. Is he considered world's top expert among pharmacologists? Chemists? DEA agents? Psychologists? Anyone involved in research related to psychedelics (a notoriously multidisciplinary topic...)? On whose authority do we take it that the topness of his expertise is toppier than that of Sasha Shulgin or Albert Hoffman?

The Swiss chemist who discovered/invented LSD spells his name "Hofmann". Some of Nichols' papers are coauthored by a "A. Hoffman", but that's a completely different fellow, an American who was one of Nichols' graduate students in the mid-1980s. Merenta

Grammar

"Although his research mostly uses rats, a number of compounds included in Shulgin's PIHKAL were actually first synthesized in Nichols's lab"

Im failing to see the connection between usually using rats, and synthesizing chemicals in his own lab.. there is nothing to suggest that these compounds were for human research, which i feel this sentence implies.

Rats can be kept anywhere.. Compounds can be moved to other locations once synthesized..

Sasha Shulgin is well-known for having used himself as a test subject when it comes to the compounds synthesised in his lab. The text might possibly suggest that he also tested some of Nichol's compounds, but this should be clarified. Calanor~svwiki (talk) 13:06, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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