[smt88]

I think that very few people clicked this because they thought that psychedelic mushrooms could somehow solve the problems threatening the human race (e.g. climate change, overpopulation, water shortages, nuclear weapons, etc.)

My bet would be that they thought what the title wanted them to think: "I wonder how mushrooms are good to feed humans and/or save the ecosystem?"

Just because some readers of HN use drugs doesn't mean they're any less science-y or that they're idiotic, blind fans of psychedelic mushrooms.

[stolio]

If the article wasn't in Vice, if the main subject of the article didn't credit magic mushrooms for his world view, if the author of the article didn't reference insane theories of evolution happening because primates started tripping on mushrooms, if the author didn't extol the virtues of psilocybin, I would probably agree with you.

As it is the article clearly has a bias towards mushrooms because of the psychedelic properties some of them possess.