Editing Timothy Leary (section)

==== Firing by Harvard ====
Other professors in the Harvard Center for Research in Personality raised concerns about the experiments' legitimacy and safety.<ref name=Kansra /><ref name=Harvard /><ref name=SaraDavidson>{{cite journal |last=Davidson |first=Sara |title=The Ultimate Trip |journal=[[Tufts Magazine]] |date=Fall 2006 |url=http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2006/features/ultimate-trip.html |access-date=March 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304021804/http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2006/features/ultimate-trip.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Leary and Alpert taught a class that was required for graduation and colleagues felt they were abusing their power by pressuring graduate students to take hallucinogens in the experiments. Leary and Alpert also went against policy by giving psychedelics to undergraduate students and did not select participants through [[random sampling]]. It was also ethically questionable that the researchers sometimes took hallucinogens along with the subjects they were studying. These concerns were printed in ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', leading the university to halt the experiments. The [[Massachusetts Department of Public Health]] launched an investigation that was later dropped but the university eventually fired Leary and Alpert.

According to [[Andrew Weil]], Leary (who held an untenured teaching appointment) was fired for missing his scheduled lectures, while Alpert (a [[tenure-track]] assistant professor) was dismissed for allegedly giving an undergraduate psilocybin in an off-campus apartment.{{sfnp|Weil|1963}}<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Russin |first1=Joseph M. |last2=Weil |first2=Andrew T. |date=January 24, 1973 |title=The Crimson Takes Leary, Alpert to Task |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1973/1/24/the-crimson-takes-leary-alpert-to/ |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref> Harvard President [[Nathan Pusey]] released a statement on May 27, 1963, reporting that Leary had left campus without authorization and "failed to keep his classroom appointments". His salary was terminated on April 30, 1963.<ref name="termination">''New York Times'', December 3, 1966, p. 25</ref>