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."
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.
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?
“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.
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.
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.
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
Looks like it’s time for the tin foil hats for real!
Repulsive idea. Things are really going south.
SO it effectively makes you an idiot?
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.”
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
SO, how do you shut down liberalism in the brain? That’s the real question.
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!
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
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
aka, Nonsurgical Lobotomy
These must be standard equipment in American college libraries. :)
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.
Cell phones anyone??
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