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Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS
Express UK ^ | 10/13/2015 | Selina Sykes

Posted on 10/14/2015 5:44:58 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: beliefs; faithandphilosophy; illegals; immigrants; magneticstimulation; tms; values
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21 posted on 10/14/2015 6:11:15 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Leftist wet dream.

Is this Orwell?


22 posted on 10/14/2015 6:11:58 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
They use magnets inside TVs to steer or guide electrons. So why not somehow manipulate the electrical patterns in the brain?

You can mess around with a TV picture using a magnet.

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23 posted on 10/14/2015 6:12:35 AM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL

When my kids were little I had a couple of rare earth magnets. One of them found them and quickly discovered the interesting effect that they had on old-school CRT televisions.

Unfortunately our television never recovered. As far as Mrs. Buckeye was concerned that was all MY fault for having super-powerful magnets in the house in the first place.


24 posted on 10/14/2015 6:17:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Now, on the old TV shows and in the comic books, if you reverse the polarity of the magnets you should be able to make the atheists believe in God, etc.


25 posted on 10/14/2015 6:18:17 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: wally_bert
They need to be extremely careful with this technology. Check out these unfortunate victims of experiments gone horribly wrong...

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26 posted on 10/14/2015 6:18:19 AM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I salvage magnets from retired hard drives from work and use them for holding, clamping, and retrieval tasks around the shop. Wife was impressed when I used one to pull out the broken off tip of a glazier’s point that was embedded in the heel of her foot.


27 posted on 10/14/2015 6:26:08 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

This article that was posted here yesterday, I believe, gives the low-down on most of these so-called scientific studies by liberals:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/making-it-all_1042807.html?page=1

Most of this “research” is just lies. Unfortunately, lots of liberals believe it. But socialists are all pretty gullible.


28 posted on 10/14/2015 6:36:16 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

As long as they don’t stop me from liking Ludwig Van.


29 posted on 10/14/2015 6:36:46 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Can they turn Bernie Sanders into a freedom loving, free enterprise capitalist? And turn Luis Gutiérrez into a border enforcement hawk? Or does this magnetic technique only take you over to the Dark Side?


30 posted on 10/14/2015 6:38:51 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: cripplecreek

Nothing will shake me because I am firm in God’s word. This crap is just that...crap.

On a related note, I think the end has to be close given the massive acceleration towards the brick wall.


31 posted on 10/14/2015 6:41:38 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

And Uri Geller can bend spoons with his mind.


32 posted on 10/14/2015 6:43:09 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Democrats have destroyed more cities than Godzilla)
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To: COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; opentalk; ..
Did they try to make a single muslim into an non-believer?

Didn't think so...

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33 posted on 10/14/2015 6:51:30 AM PDT by null and void (Reality 1, Liberal Academics 0)
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To: null and void

Obviously, This has all ready been used on 99% of the politicians in this country...


34 posted on 10/14/2015 6:54:24 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Government looking to wipe out conservatives and Christians either by force or they will dupe them into getting this done under the false idea that it would cure them of depression, weight loss or some other reason.

How Orwellian.


35 posted on 10/14/2015 6:57:02 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: Bulwyf

Watching “How the Universe works” last night and was pleased to hear a scientist say ‘There will be dark matter if God decides there should be dark matter’.


36 posted on 10/14/2015 6:59:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

aka...brain damage.


37 posted on 10/14/2015 7:00:11 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Clinical study abstract source article:

http://m.scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/10/scan.nsv107.abstract?sid=1aa13383-7f84-4734-8991-a31c7a329d76

 Neuromodulation of group prejudice and religious belief
 Authors

    Colin Holbrook1,
    Keise Izuma2,
    Choi Deblieck3,
    Daniel M. T. Fessler1 and
    Marco Iacoboni4

    1 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA,
    2 Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK,
    3 Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA and
    4 Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095,

    Accepted August 31, 2015.

Abstract

People cleave to ideological convictions with greater intensity in the aftermath of threat. The posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC) plays a key role in both detecting discrepancies between desired and current conditions and adjusting subsequent behavior to resolve such conflicts. Building on prior literature examining the role of the pMFC in shifts in relatively low-level decision processes, we demonstrate that the pMFC mediates adjustments in adherence to political and religious ideologies. We presented participants with a reminder of death and a critique of their in-group ostensibly written by a member of an out-group, then experimentally decreased both avowed belief in God and out-group derogation by downregulating pMFC activity via transcranial magnetic stimulation. The results provide the first evidence that group prejudice and religious belief are susceptible to targeted neuromodulation, and point to a shared cognitive mechanism underlying concrete and abstract decision processes. We discuss the implications of these findings for further research characterizing the cognitive and affective mechanisms at play.
Key words

ethnocentrism religiosity transcranial magnetic stimulation posterior medial frontal cortex


38 posted on 10/14/2015 7:04:32 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Give me an arm chair, a pair of pliers, and some rope and I can make them say anything I want them to say.


39 posted on 10/14/2015 7:35:22 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: PlateOfShrimp

That’s the movie and the drops in the eyes that cause that!

I just thought of something! IF they make people “change their mind” with magnets, what happens when the magnetic poles shift as scientists say it will do?


40 posted on 10/14/2015 8:15:14 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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