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Posted on 10/14/2015 6:48:06 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611992/Scientists-experiment-magnets-immigrants-God-magnetic-waves
Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS
ATTITUDES towards God and immigrants can be changed by beaming magnetic waves into the brain, scientists have claimed. By Selina Sykes Wed, Oct 14, 2015 A bizarre experiment claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants in experiments some may find a threat to their values.
Scientists looked at how the brain resolves abstract ideological problems.
Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.
TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control.
Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.
Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.
Dr Keise Izuma, from the University of York, said: "People often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems.
"We wanted to find out whether a brain region that is linked with solving concrete problems, like deciding how to move one's body to overcome an obstacle, is also involved in solving abstract problems addressed by ideology."
The scientists targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex, a brain region a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting and responding to problems.
Volunteers were asked to rate their belief in God, heaven, the devil, and hell after undergoing pre-screening to ensure that they held religious convictions.
Dr Izuma said: "We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death.
"As expected, we found that when we experimentally turned down the posterior medial frontal cortex, people were less inclined to reach for comforting religious ideas despite having been reminded of death."
The American participants were also shown two essays written by newly arrived immigrants - one highly complimentary of the US and the other extremely critical.
Dr Izuma said: "When we disrupted the brain region that usually helps detect and respond to threats, we saw a less negative, less ideologically motivated reaction to the critical author and his opinions."
The research, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, suggests our brains use the same basic mental pathways to solve practical problems such as following directions or ideological issues such as immigration and religion.
Lead author Dr Colin Holbrook, form the the University of California at Los Angeles, said: "These findings are very striking, and consistent with the idea that brain mechanisms that evolved for relatively basic threat-response functions are re-purposed to also produce ideological reactions."
Laz, IIRC you just posted a thread recently related to this topic?
What was once sci-fi, is becoming sci-fact.
Well DUH (to the article)..this might explain why voters chose Odumbo two times. They forgot to mention it only works on dimwit LIVs though.
Hitch lobotomy.
Obviously, This has all ready been used on 99% of the politicians in this country...
Obamacare WILL cover this expense at 100 % and its mandatory treatment, right?
The soul and conscience are made up of sacred material.
The desire to be naturally free remains despite a marxist windbag opening his or her mouth spouting magnetic buzz words.
What if the same treatment was used on those who don’t believe in God and believe in open immigration?
So they basically damage your brain so you are less likely to believe in God? If anything, I wish I had MORE faith—not less.
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Sure. Fry your brain with Electromagnetic radiation, and you'll be so stupid that you will think like a liberal.
Why is this a story again?
Source abstract article:
Neuromodulation of group prejudice and religious belief
Authors
Colin Holbrook1,
Keise Izuma2,
Choi Deblieck3,
Daniel M. T. Fessler1 and
Marco Iacoboni4
1 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA,
2 Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK,
3 Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA and
4 Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095,
Accepted August 31, 2015.
Abstract
People cleave to ideological convictions with greater intensity in the aftermath of threat. The posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC) plays a key role in both detecting discrepancies between desired and current conditions and adjusting subsequent behavior to resolve such conflicts. Building on prior literature examining the role of the pMFC in shifts in relatively low-level decision processes, we demonstrate that the pMFC mediates adjustments in adherence to political and religious ideologies. We presented participants with a reminder of death and a critique of their in-group ostensibly written by a member of an out-group, then experimentally decreased both avowed belief in God and out-group derogation by downregulating pMFC activity via transcranial magnetic stimulation. The results provide the first evidence that group prejudice and religious belief are susceptible to targeted neuromodulation, and point to a shared cognitive mechanism underlying concrete and abstract decision processes. We discuss the implications of these findings for further research characterizing the cognitive and affective mechanisms at play.
Key words
ethnocentrism religiosity transcranial magnetic stimulation posterior medial frontal cortex
And an application of lead to their brains will lead to immediate and profound belief in God and concern for the remaining influence Christianity has on Western culture.
I give zero credence to this article.
Why waste the time using magnets?
The MSM is already doing this as we speak.
It changes your mind, huh? Wow, a new tool for elections, buying habits, juries, etc. The new wonder method for Madison Avenue.
You will notice that they claim that magnets can make Christians stop believing in God, but will they experiment using Magnets to stop Muslims from believing in Allah? I think not.
Somehow I think these “Scientists” are just Anti-Christian zealots. They want Christians to go away but they welcome Muslims with open arms. Maybe the magnets just make scientists stupid.
You know very well that this "science" story is a political propaganda hit piece and that there is a preferred "correct" political position.
This is STASI/Communist stuff, and the people who wrote this need many good punches in the mouth for their attempt to meddle in politics.
This is nothing but more Gleichschaltung of which the Nazis were famous. This is little different from the propaganda text books where they taught children math by asking how much money could be saved if they got rid of the "untermenschen".
It is chilling that anyone would do such experiments and then publish the results as if they didn't expect all around condemnation for their presumption.
Again, these people need a good beating. They need some comeuppance for their vile efforts.
“Dr Izuma said: “We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death.”
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
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