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Don't you think this is an unfair way of framing this? There are plenty of people who may value their relationship who this could help. It's no different than taking anti-depressants or other meds that can help improve their quality of life.
There's a lot of potential benefits to psychedelics. But a single study of 300 people showing one effect is hardly cause for celebration.
There is a massive difference in using well studied and understood ways to help couples work through issues VS. Taking something poorly understood that we have close to zero understanding of the long term impact for.
So I'm pretty comfortable saying this is bullshit until proven otherwise, and I think that's the healthiest way to do it.
Think of it another way - there's far more research and drugs that are touted as curing cancer that go nowhere than there is support for this. It's a sexy headline but pretty useless at end of day.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I always read headlines in non-academic news sites like this as "some research suggests..."
There's obviously nothing entirely conclusive, but it looks promising at least.