WTF? An upcoming CNN story re: a nasal spray that can make you...

[Fridays Child]

...a more trusting person. That is scary sounding shit. :scared:

[expatriate]

1. I wonder what they'll name this groovy new product?

Nasal Naivete?

Con In A Can?

Faith Fizz?

Trust Poppers?

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, there are people dying of all kinds of medical conditions out there, and somewhere, somehow, funding got funnelled into something like this.

[Fridays Child]

3. I dunno but the newsette called it oxycontin, at first. Freudian slip?

It's actually the hormone oxytocin.

[evermind]

2. Story at Spoof News

Scientists Bottle New Trust Me Drug Wednesday, 01 June 2005

Scientists have discovered a nasal spray that can induce trust during business transactions. A study at the University of Zurich, published in the June 2 issue of Nature, found that test subjects given the hormone oxytocin invested 17 percent more money than those given a placebo. The oxytocin users showed maximum trust more than twice as often.

The study marks the latest breakthrough in the field of neuroeconomics, which is also striving to help create advertising and packaging designed to trigger oxytocin production. Studies are underway to learn more about how oxytocin can influence how we make decisions.

Some researchers believe humans could build up resistance to oxytocin. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) apologized for calling George Bush a loser. Reid told Rolling Stone he still thinks Bush is a liar.

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) also may have a healthy resistance to oxytocin. He has some hard questions about the Secret Downing Street Memo for George Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.spoofnews.com/content/view/279/31

While the above story may have some satirical intent (ahem) the nasal spray is apparently real! See: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67698,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

Better supplement that tin hat with a couple of high-grade nostril filters!

[Fridays Child]

4. The banned rave and date-rape drug GHB is an oxytocin stimulant.

[Henny Penny]

9. Yes it is in Nature!

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050531/full/050531-4.html

Don't like the thought of this being wafted around shops, schools, factories etc the way the smell of baking bread is now!

"Oxytocin is "easy and cheap to produce and it is easy to get it in drug stores, at least in Switzerland," Fehr says. So does that mean it could be pumped into the air in department stores by unscrupulous salespeople, turning us all into soft targets?

Perhaps, but it seems a trifle extravagant, says Antonio Damasio, a neurologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Modern advertising already uses tricks to get us to trust a brand that probably make us boost our own oxytocin levels. "It lures you in with images of wonderful landscapes or sex, and it probably works in exactly the same way," says Damasio."

[evermind]

11. How long does it last? I mean is it worth spraying it on junk mail? (n/t)

[Henny Penny]

14. good idea! :-)

Imagine a nice glossy picture of a Burger etc with one of those scent patches and the message says... "get a hint of what's in store for you when you drop into our establishment... "

And of course the user takes a good sniff of the "fresh cooked burger smell" and the oxytocin and trusts that brand for ever!

[jus_the_facts]

5. I'm sure Wal Mart will be THE premier outlet to try it out first.....

....on a *consumer frenzy* environment. :crazy:

[Fridays Child]

6. Along with subliminal messages...

(you need ___________)
(___________ will make you beautiful)
(___________ will improve your ___________)

[jus_the_facts]

7. *nukular subliminable strategery*

....the future of complete consumer mind control... :nuke:

[Cooley Hurd]

8. So, THAT'S what they were snorting at the RNC convention!

All this time, I thought it was heroin...:shrug:

[Fridays Child]

10. A continuous, fine mist wafted over the crowd, perhaps?

It does sound like something straight out of Rove's playbook.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. It is being called a cure for autism

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3768878

[KharmaTrain]

13. Is This Breaking News? Terror Alert?

Bless those fine folks at CNNServative for reporting the "news" we really need. No need to bother about an immoral invasion that's going bad or an economy that's in the worst shape in decades or mass corruption by Repugnicans. Nah...that's of little use...we need to More worthless prattle.

[DistressedAmerican]

15. If It Is Oxytocin They Are Using, I Am Not Surprised.

It is the hormone wonem produce immetiately after birth. It produces a powerful calming effect.

I heard a story on NPR once by a lady that had given birth of 9/11. She said it was very weird because everyone around here was in shock while she felt just GREAT!

Powerful Stuff!

[SmokingJacket]

21. Won't it then cause your breasts to release floods of milk?

I was under the impression that oxytocin did that, too...

[AllegroRondo]

16. Side effects - it turns your index finger purple

[radwriter0555]

17. I got that.

I did.

Well done.

[DistressedAmerican]

19. Not This One By Chance?

[formercia]

18. la la la, everything is wonderful.

It's still Koolaid.

[mopaul]

20. S. A. D.--Social Anxiety Disorder, a new malady with a new pill...!!!

there are drugs for virtually every emotional twitch and tic now.