In recent years, a small group of researchers from different disciplines, including myself, has been highlighting a set of data that, not only does not confirm the millenary use of ayahuasca, but would demonstrate the contrary; that is, they would endorse a rather recent discovery, someone proposing only few centuries. In response to this new hypothesis, there are many protests against me (in Italy and elsewhere) and other researchers on the part of modern religious, neo-shamanic, and New Age movements that have sentimental (if not economic) interests to endorse the great antiquity of the visionary drink they employ in their