The 'psilocybin reshapes the brain' story gets amplified well beyond its actual clinical claim within weeks.

A study finds something interesting about how psychedelics affect brain activity in a lab setting. By the time it travels through news outlets, the headline reads like scientists have proven psychedelics rebuild your brain and cure depression. The actual finding was far narrower and more tentative. This gap between the real science and the public story spreads fast.

Today's headline already overstates a mechanistic electrophysiology finding. This pattern is deterministic — media rewards awe over caveats.