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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-10 08:02 AM
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Scientists learn how to create Tea Baggers
People's moral judgment can be altered by disrupting part of the brain, a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) disrupted activity in the right temporo-parietal junction, or TPJ, which is above and behind the right ear and is usually highly active when we think about what we believe the outcome of a particular act will be.

The researchers disrupted the TPJ by inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the scalp and got study participants to read a series of scenarios posing moral conundrums.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0329/scientists-discover-turn-off-brains-morality-center/

THAT explains it! You just knew that they could not occur naturally.

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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-10 08:10 AM
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1. So we really should be wearing foil hats?
:tinfoilhat:
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-10 08:14 AM
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2. I am not surprised that they can change the way we think, as we
learn more and more about the brain. But now I have to reassess how I thought about an old secretary I had, who put aluminum foil all around her cubical, put out glasses of water to attract the evil magnetism from the computers, and who prayed before using the copier.
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-10 08:39 AM
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3. you should get video of that and put it on youtube. n/t
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-10 08:41 AM
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4. I always thought people driving with a cell phone at their right ear
were driving with no concern for others on the road.

THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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