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To: MarchonDC09122009

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.


17 posted on 10/14/2015 7:09:04 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Tagline pending.)
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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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“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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P-Marlowe @17: "You will notice that they claim that magnets can make Christians stop believing in God"

Well, not likely. An October 14, 2015 article, "Research that is simply beyond belief" notes:

[A] team from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), [carried] out an innovative experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a safe way of temporarily shutting down specific regions of the brain.

The researchers targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex, a part of the brain located near the surface and roughly a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting problems and triggering responses that address them.

In the study, half of the participants received a low-level "sham" procedure that did not affect their brains, and half received enough energy to lower activity in the target brain area. Next, all of the participants were first asked to think about death, and then were asked questions about their religious beliefs and their feelings about immigrants.

The findings, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, reveal that people in whom the targeted brain region was temporarily shut down reported [an average of] 32.8% less belief in God, angels, or heaven. They were also [an average of] 28.5% more positive in their feelings toward an immigrant who criticised their country.

However flaws in the study can be seen in the Methods section of the published Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience paper, "Neuromodulation of group prejudice and religious belief" (Colin Holbrook, Keise Izuma, Choi Deblieck, Daniel M.T. Fessler, and Marco Iacoboni):
[University of California] Undergraduates were recruited for a study, ostensibly consisting of a series of unrelated measures, in exchange for $25... As has been done in similar ways in prior studies employing this measure of intergroup bias, to ensure that participants would respond aversively to a Latino immigrant’s criticisms of the USA, those who identified as ‘extremely liberal’ or as non-US citizens were excluded from participating, and four individuals who self-identified as ‘Hispanic/Latino’ after participating were dropped prior to analysis. The final sample consisted of 38 participants (58% female, Mage = 20.9 years, s.d. = 2.67). About 36.8% of the participants identified as White, 36.8% as East Asian, 13.2% as South Asian, 7.9% as Middle Eastern and 5.3% as Other. As intended, the sample was politically moderate (M = 4.68, s.d. = 1.51; 1 = ‘Extremely Liberal’; 5 = ‘Moderate’; 9 = ‘Extremely Conservative’). [References were removed from the quoted excerpt.]
These were UC undergrads! Paid $25 each! And only 38 of them! Of the 38 testees, there was no indication whether any UC undergrads were Christian. If a ranking of 9 = extremely conservative, then 7 or 8 would be conservative, yet the 1 s.d. upper limit is 6.2. In political or theological equivalents, those tested were at best most likely RINOs and/or Episcopalians.... and, again, UC undergrads.
55 posted on 10/14/2015 6:32:28 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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