Here’s the breathless headline: “Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God — with MAGNETS.”
Wait. Attitudes toward God and immigrants? Are these a natural pair? The newspaper thought so. They tell of an experiment which “claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants.” How’s it done? “Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation” researchers can “safely shut down certain groups of neurones” in the brain.
It seems to have worked. Volunteers were coaxed into having their brains zapped by giant magnets. And, lo! “Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.”
I’m pretty sure I can hit you on the head with a hammer and not only will you not believe in God and embrace massive immigration (legal and illegal) but you’ll believe socialism is the best economic model, global warming is real, and that 9/11 was an inside job.
In other words, I can make you retarded.
ht/ smb
That’s insane…
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmvxAcT_Yc
Pffft. I can duplicate these results by huffing copious amounts of airplane glue. And have a lot more fun to boot.
I smell a rat
I saw a discovery show a while back with a helmet that did the same thing only it produced an awareness of God rather than ‘Cure’ Religion.
However, thought is the brain’s electric signals.
It stands to reason that applying magnetism (highly organized electrons) to the brain will affect the electric signals. To what degree is open to interpretation.
Although why you would do that is beyond me. Kind of like you hear your Private Parts are highly flammable, so you test that theory with a lighter
Just like Cartman looking for the Brown Note, be careful what you wish for.
Just the same I guess in ten years there will be catch and release vans hunting and ‘Curing’ Conservatives and Christians just like on Safari Shows
Well if that’s true, then we can make people want a gun who don’t want one now.
Win Win
I know how you can make moslem murderers stop believing in allah, only it involves lead rather than magnets.
How about using magnetized steel bullets? I wonder what that would do.
Remarkable psychological and personality changes have been imposed on people exposed to carefully crafted electromagnetic radiation since the 1950s. The device that does this is called a “television”.
We can now change gay people
Shutting down rational thought.
Why go to all this trouble for a temporary fix?
A Jiffylobo is quick and permanent.
Maybe cure those saps who believe in man-made climate change.
Since magnetism and electricity are so closely related, isn’t this about the same as electroshock therapy?
I saw this article and decided to read the details a few days ago. Seems that it is only a percentage of the group who’s minds were changed and not the entire group. Also the change was only a minor alteration of their opinion. My first thought was they should change the headline to be “Science proves weak minded liberals do exist !!” Seems more to the point.
Sounds like another 7th century Islamic “genius” idea. The same kind that inspired Clock Boy Ahmed.
Magnets vs, Jesus. What seminary of Liberal Christianity did they try this out on? Yale?
Shit, those Bastids got me right before my very first post on IOTW.
Where do you have to stick a magnet to make them forget they are a prog lib ahole?
dont laugh, it appears to be working.
I think at that point it’d be a little too late to get the point across.
And based on a 71 percent acceptance rate of PP’s heinous acts, it would stand to reason people would sign up for this.
That’s why I have a tin foil hat