Scientists Claim Zapping Brains with Magnets Can Treat Belief in God

The Stream ^ | October 15, 2015 | William M Briggs

[detective]

Here’s the breathless headline: “Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God — with MAGNETS.”

Wait. Attitudes toward God and immigrants? Are these a natural pair? The newspaper thought so. They tell of an experiment which “claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants.” How’s it done? “Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation” researchers can “safely shut down certain groups of neurones” in the brain.

It seems to have worked. Volunteers were coaxed into having their brains zapped by giant magnets. And, lo! “Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.”

[detective]

I wonder if electroshock treatments and frontal lobotomies have the same effect.

[Mr. K]

Interesting.... can it treat being gay?

[mothball]

Can it make someone think logically and instill common sense, so we can be libtard free?

[Thorliveshere]

I’ve often wondered if drugs do it, too, but then I’m just basing this on my brother....

[Maceman]

Can it treat belief in the god of government?

[DannyTN]

They’re shutting down neurons....that’s brain damage.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

What clap-trap idiot on the left thought this one up?

[DoughtyOne]

I was just thinking how that magnet treatment would be administered.

Let me guess, with electricity and a bite stick.

[freedom6178]

That would explain liberals.

[Doogle]

[Pearls Before Swine]

Interesting.... can it treat being gay?

"It had better not!" /S

[jonascord]

We could take two rare earth magnets, say 20lbs each, and put one on either side of a Democrat's head, and let them slam together...

Just a suggestion. It would help the Stupid.

[BuffaloJack]

Does this mean that God is magnetic and can be removed with a big-ass magnet?
The last time I saw this much BS was when the left invented Global Warming.

[Raycpa]

I had an MRI, does that count?

[tet68]

Nope, probably government mandated in cell phones...

[Vision Thing]

These same techniques can be used against the lib agenda, too.

[denydenydeny]

Because, SCIENCE!

[Cincinatus]

"I was cured, all right..."

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, there you go...

[smokingfrog]

Finally! Hope for a cure. /s