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Wikipedia's article on R. Gordon Wasson, the banker turned ethnomycologist whose 1957 Life magazine account introduced psilocybin mushrooms to a wide audience and who later proposed the Eleusinian Mysteries' kykeon contained an entheogen, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard biographical facts such as his career and publications, and less reliable for evaluating his own speculative theories about ancient entheogen use, which remain genuinely debated among classicists. Use it for basic biography; the entheogen hypothesis itself needs a dedicated scholarly treatment.

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Wikipedia's article on R. Gordon Wasson, whose 1957 Life magazine account introduced psilocybin mushrooms to a wide audience and who proposed the Eleusinian kykeon contained an entheogen, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for standard biography and less reliable for evaluating his own speculative entheogen hypothesis, which remains genuinely debated among classicists.
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Wikipedia's article on R. Gordon Wasson. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about R. Gordon Wasson (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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  • Historical Figures, 13 claims: 12 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
  • Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.

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