That's the guy. That is the face of a maniac.

PowerPoint mess this one up too.

Oh well, I mean. Oh no.

He died at 102. Good Lord. We'll get to his life. But the text in the background says I can only show that molecule so many times law.

So the 25th of his experiments was a combination between ergotamine and diaphylamine.

It was labeled LSD 25 for lab tests.

It didn't really work as anybody hoped. The animal testing only

resulted in the text subjects becoming restless. Normally what would happen

when tests went nowhere like this is the formula would be thrown out and forgotten.

Nobody would ever give a shit ever again.

But Hoffman, quote, liked the chemical structure, unquote, and held on to the formula because he thought there was more potential

than they first saw.

So like he did that thing with like Donkey did at the start of Shrek and he's like, I like that molecule.

That's a nice molecule.

Good molecule, that's fucking funny.

Hoffman had always been kind of eccentric.

He had initially thought about studying the humanities and becoming an artist.

But he ended up going into chemistry not because he was going to take some hardline rational view of the world,

but because he wanted to explain the mystical experiences he had as a kid.

Quote, mystical experiences in childhood

in which nature was altered in magical ways

had provoked questions concerning the essence

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