Joe said Alice in Wonderland was about LSD.

Sep 12, 2026

Previously: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was written while on LSD. [false] — Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. LSD was not synthesized until 1938 by Albert Hofmann, and its mind altering effects were not even discovered until 1943, decades after Carroll died in 1898. This makes it physically impossible for Carroll to have written the book on LSD, and there is no credible evidence he was on any drug when he wrote it.

Now: Joe said Alice in Wonderland was about LSD. [false] — The original book was first published in 1865; LSD was first synthesized in 1938, 73 calendar years later. This checks the statement about the original book, not later psychedelic interpretations. Rick replied, “Um, I don’t know.” Joe did not say that Carroll wrote the book while taking LSD.

Corrected the extraction “written while on LSD” to Joe’s actual statement that the book was “about LSD,” and retained Rick’s hesitation. The false verdict concerns the original book, not later interpretations.