Magnets 'can modify our morality'

[Joanne98]

Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses.

They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality.

And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers' notion of right and wrong.

The small Massachusetts Institute of Technology study appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8593748.stm

The fundies will pick this up and turn it into a CT!

[MindandSoul]

1. That's scary!. . .any connection between cell phones and magnets. . .or energy fields???

[salvorhardin]

4. No, orders of magnitudes difference

The magnetic fields generated by transcranial magnetic stimulation devices are much, much stronger than anything you'd ever see from a consumer appliance. The way TMS devices work is by inducing a current in very localized regions of brain cells that temporarily shuts them down.

[Jamastiene]

2. You mean I'll all of a sudden want to start wearing clothes if

I quit listening to music on headphones? That just makes me want to turn it up to 12. :P

[HereSince1628]

3. The brits have uniforms to protect against said cranial assaults

But I recommend replacing the tassel with aluminum foil, as it also stops radio signals from Venutians