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Ignored by mainstream medicine, people who suffer bizarrely painful headaches are helping to test hallucinogenic drugs as a cure. Arran Frood talks to these citizen scientists.
He is so soft-spoken you may have to strain to catch his words, but on the topic of recognition for scientists in resource-poor regions, Menno de Jong is ready for a fistfight.