A mother from Canada told him that her son’s autism had vastly improved after she gave him megadoses of B vitamins inspired by the schizophrenia research of Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond at a mental hospital in Saskatchewan. Osmond was no stranger to controversial research: he coined the word psychedelic in 1957 after giving Aldous Huxley the dose of mescaline that inspired him to write The Doors of Perception.
