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Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with magnetic field exposure
express.co.uk ^ | 10/14/2015 | Selina Sykes

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."


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; brain; catastrophism; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; gps; health; magnetic; magneticfield; magneticstimulation; magnetism; poleshift; science; tms
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To: P-Marlowe
Somehow I think these “Scientists” are just Anti-Christian zealots.

One does not do such experiments and then publish the "results" unless this is exactly the intent.

These "scientists" need their teeth punched in, and they need to be beaten down and made to understand that if you are going to act like a f***ing Nazi, you need to be treated like one.

21 posted on 10/14/2015 7:14:09 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MarchonDC09122009

22 posted on 10/14/2015 7:14:13 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
...researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.

I am sure lobotomies were considered 'safe' in their day also.

I am not exactly sure of the purpose of this study. You fry a portion of someone's brain (excuse, 'safely fry a portion of someone's brain') and then you find he thinks differently afterwards?

23 posted on 10/14/2015 7:15:22 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: P-Marlowe

“will they experiment using Magnets to stop Muslims from believing in Allah?”

In the short term I’d settle for just stopping them from beheading people.


24 posted on 10/14/2015 7:15:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: MarchonDC09122009; P-Marlowe; Lazamataz

Possible end times application. I notice that belief is reduced by a ‘third’. Wonder what that means?

Could it mean a third of the people are immune, or does it mean when once you believed in 10 commandments now you only believe in 6.66 commandments? 3.33 commandments have gone by the wayside?

The answer could be resistance of the person. It is neutralized by true believers, but makes non-believers, quasi-believers totally jump the shark.

One aspect of the ‘mark’ is that it can be resisted. That’s why it can’t be a simple tattoo.


25 posted on 10/14/2015 7:16:24 AM PDT by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Possible uses in medicine to correct some mental illness. Huge potential for miss use by government. This prompts an interesting set of questions:

Can this be used to implant learning? For example, could this be used to assist in the learning of language, math, science?

Also, can this be used to reverse one’s beliefs? The article talks about shutting off areas of the brain and thus “removing” the belief in God. Could this then be reversed? And if it can be reversed, could it be used to change a liberal anti-god into a God loving Christian?

Since most of sex is in the brain, could this be used as a treatment for homosexuality and transgender? How about treating pedophiles or other sexual deviants / addictions?

Can it be used to turn off or reduce a soldier’s sense of fear making him/her braver?

How about chronic pain management?

This seems like a Pandora’s box to me.


26 posted on 10/14/2015 7:17:35 AM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: V_TWIN

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:4


27 posted on 10/14/2015 7:18:26 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Looks like it’s time for the tin foil hats for real!


28 posted on 10/14/2015 7:25:00 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

CIA MK-ULTRA mind control program:

http://www.wired.com/2010/04/0413mk-ultra-authorized/


29 posted on 10/14/2015 7:25:21 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS

Repulsive idea. Things are really going south.

30 posted on 10/14/2015 7:26:18 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

SO it effectively makes you an idiot?


31 posted on 10/14/2015 7:26:43 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: batterycommander

That came to mind just as you mention..

RE:”It changes your mind, huh? Wow, a new tool for elections, buying habits, juries, etc. The new wonder method for Madison Avenue.”


32 posted on 10/14/2015 7:27:20 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: P-Marlowe

Thanks for that. Also:

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
_John 15:18

You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
_Matthew 10:22


33 posted on 10/14/2015 7:33:34 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: MarchonDC09122009

SO, how do you shut down liberalism in the brain? That’s the real question.


34 posted on 10/14/2015 7:35:23 AM PDT by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: batterycommander
Wow, a new tool for elections

Save your money!
Clearly this is bogus, my refrigerator has a nice selection, including some N52 neodymium magnets, try and pull them off!

I used to dissect old hard drives for the magnets, full height 5.25 is best. Also wound some large electromagnets.

Yes! I'm sane and have the papers to prove it!

35 posted on 10/14/2015 7:37:41 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
This is depraved. As in the days of Noah...

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.~Genesis 6:5

36 posted on 10/14/2015 7:41:23 AM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

aka, Nonsurgical Lobotomy


37 posted on 10/14/2015 7:47:54 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

These must be standard equipment in American college libraries. :)


38 posted on 10/14/2015 7:50:05 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

So, when they cause brain damage, people are then less likely to believe and follow God and more likely to accept illogical invasion of their country by savages.

Sounds like Television.


39 posted on 10/14/2015 7:51:55 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Cell phones anyone??


40 posted on 10/14/2015 7:53:34 AM PDT by taterjay
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