Posted on 04/02/2013 6:57:47 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
President Barack Obama is proposing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries, a senior administration official says.
The president planned to propose a $100 million investment for next year during remarks Tuesday morning, the White House said.
Obama mentioned the idea in his State of the Union address, comparing the potential to the Human Genome Project that mapped DNA.
"Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy. Every dollar," Obama said in the address to Congress in February. "Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's."
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I remember that the 90’s were supposed to be “the decade of the brain” in terms of NIH funded research. It didn’t happen. That actually was the decade the genome was sequenced.
Now they are trying to do it again which I think is a valuable goal.
But with the way things are going and how incredibly minimal understandings of the brain are discussed and applied, I think they want to be able to identify thought crimes by some sort of brain imaging.
So, how will this evil administration do this great brain research? They need brains and brain tissue first ...and they can’t go taking them out of live people.
So, how will they find these brains? Guess all these folks killed off by the death panels will provide the material needed — older folks with dementia and alzheimers will be easy first targets.
Call me paranoid, but I am suspicious of anything and everything this administration puts forth. If anything, it’s another crony capitalism money laundering deal.
The country is going BANKRUPT, but the U.S. government has $100 million to spend on a ‘Brain Initiative’?
Not only does Obama want to emulate and imitate the amazing neuro-surgeon Dr. Ben Carson, but I’m wondering if federal funds to Johns Hopkins University & Medical Center are going to ‘dry up’ now because of this administration initiative.
Dr. Jose Delgado of Yale University (a Spaniard) was able to successfully implant and control the brain waves of bulls by electromagnetic waves. Could this happen here too?
Jose Delgado bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodriguez_Delgado
If you’re going to develop an invention for mind control you’d have to map the brain. Obviously 0 doesn’t need to; he’s already figured that out.
Drugs and partitioning of who is sane vs govt sanction. Gee, how could that ever happen?
> Evil has been unleashed. I think things will be getting worse by the day, unless God does something.
God wrote the script. 0’s going to get body slammed. It’s not a question of if. It’s when. I’m predicting next year, big time when they find out 0dumbo’s new tax has risen quite a bit more than he said it would.
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