Posted on 08/19/2019 11:48:55 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
ROME — An Italian psychologist has proposed modifying people’s unconscious prejudices and stereotypes by subjecting parts of the brain to electric and magnetic impulses.
Over the past 20 years, researchers have attempted to alter people’s ethnic and racial stereotypes and prejudices by providing information that counteracts the prejudice, writes Maddalena Marini, yet these interventions, while effective to some extent, have produced only limited results, especially regarding duration.
A postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Marini says that these stereotypes are so instilled in the human mind that “the only way to change them is to change the biological mechanisms of the brain responsible for generating and controlling these stereotypes.”
To accomplish this, Marini proposes the use of “non-invasive brain stimulation techniques,” which “modulate the mechanisms through which the brain regulates our behavior” by introducing transcranial electric or magnetic currents.
Marini does not state whether she believes that the treatment against prejudice and stereotypes should be strictly voluntary or mandatory in some cases.
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If it happens, Western Europe will undoubtedly lead the way.
ZOT them racist bad-thinkers!
Could this be considered “The Final Solution”?
Na, too expensive.
Her first. Give her a double dose.
I propose a cattle prod for her
Wow, we conservatives have read history, and we’re still doomed to repeat it.
libs are like little wind-up toys. They do one thing repeatedly.
I suggest modifying the thinking of totalitarians by subjecting parts of their brains to high-velocity metal particles.
So “conversion therapy” is actually perfectly fine, as long as you target racists?
(Italian psychologist zaps my brain)
I hate Italians even more!
8~)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
A Documentary.
My theory, if you can't show the numbers, it's opinion. With psychiatry, show me the numbers...
Shades of Stanley Milgram....
A warning to all Americans, some of the Nazi party’s earliest and most rabid supporters were doctors and the medical profession.
Herself. I think.
Too bad insanity sometimes comes in a pretty wrapper.
OK, let’s go with that...
I have this prejudice that female psychologists are insane. They need electro shock therapy.
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