Morally impaired? Photo: Eddie Van 3000/Flickr CC
This new finding, from MIT, should cause scientists to more closely examine the risks to human health posed by mobile phones and other wireless, personal technologies. — M.B.
MIT neuroscientists believe they have isolated the brain region — just behind the right ear — where moral judgements take place.
And they can suspend someone’s ability to judge right from wrong, simply by generating a magnetic field near the same spot where many of us hold our cellular phones and wireless, Bluetooth, headsets.
The researchers’ findings, announced today:
“In both experiments, the researchers found that when the right TPJ (right temporo-parietal junction) was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible.”
The technique used by the MIT scientists, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), has been described as one that creates “virtual lesions” on the brain.
Neurostar makes a device that affects mood and behavior, from outside the head. Photo: Neuronetics
And although TMS’s long term effects on health are not well understood (similar amounts of electromagnetic radiation have been linked to increased cancer risk), the treatment is becoming increasingly popular for everything from tinnitus to depression.
The US military also hopes to use TMS to keep soldiers fighting, without the need to stop for sleep.
via Moral judgments can be altered.
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That, or register as a Republican…
nedclark – what’s the difference?
Riiiiiiight, so all the science behind the mechanics of the frontal lobe is now defunct. Teenagers will be happy to hear that they can stop being douche bags by just pitching their phones and skip brain development altogether.
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MIT Scientists huh? They sound more like conspiracy-theory-tin-foil-hat-wing-nuts to me.
Yeah, like cellphones can be bad for one’s health. Cigarette anyone?
SCOTT,
YOU are an uneducated IDIOT.
Go back and get a few years of education, and come back to this site, and let us all know…
montgomeryScott,
YOU are a silly little BOY.
Go back and tell mom, she will make it better.
J.W:
See all replies, below.
Back to remedial politoblogging with you!
‘nedclark’ is only HALF-right.
If one registers as either ‘republican’ or ‘democrat’, they are obliged to buy into the mantra of ‘my party, right or wrong’ (and as these ‘factions’ are simply two sides of the SAME party, it stands to reason that the 50-50 ‘split’ which is SO OBVIOUS works to this STATIST party’s advantage).
The rise in cell-phone use MIGHT correlate directly with public compliance; in that the ‘official’ 9/11 story is “true”; hence the lack of moral judgments regarding the continued and escalated ‘war on terror’ by Bush AND Obama…
Excuse me. My ‘Blackberry’ is ringing…
“…register as a Republican…” wasn’t very nice. You can’t be too mature to make such a remark.
TMS is a case that needs to be taken seriously. The ultimate problem is going to find a solution or stop people from using cell phones.
You’ll have ta be patient with us… this article was linked from a left-wing news site… but you’ll find that snide “Republican” remarks aside, we’re really okay people.
Morningstar – or cordless phones, headphones, hearing aids…all electronic devices generate some amount of EM field.
Wow…If even remotely “true”, this explains a lot. I’ve never been that big a fan of cell phones…even less so now. The whole TMS thing sounds pretty dubious too.
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Would this explain why so many telephone oriented employees of goods and service providers lie to customers?
Everyone is too focused on the whole “cell phone give of EM fields” part of this article.
Regular everday handset phones also have an EM Field. That means this problem has been around for quite a while. What we need, is to find a material that blocks EM radiation but allows sound waves through, then build the parts of a cell phone that face a persons head out of that material.
Could end up being a multimillion dollar idea, hmm…
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Long before the invention of cancer cell-phones (and talk hate radio), human beings regularly indulged in barbarous and savage sociopathic behavior. I rest my case with penis brained criminals like Emperor Caligula, Gengis Khan, Mohammad-mad, Napoleon, John Calvin, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Mengele, Joseph $talin, Joseph McCarthy, Mao-$e-tung, Pol Pot, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, etc. And these are only a few examples of amoral sociopaths before cancer cell phone inventions.
Man! The list of vicious and vainglorious sociopaths in the ruling class (ass well ass the general population) of humanity is endless. Indeed! Turn on Fox Newes or AM radio talk $hows. WHAT DO EWE FOLKS SEE AND HEAR THERE? Eh? Again! Let me ask. WHAT DO EWE FOLKS SEE AND HEAR THERE?
Too hick minded to recall any names? Alas! Faster poo food and sugar pop drinks will do that to ewe folks. Certainly explains why America has become ameriKa. Okay! Here are some of the more notorious contemporary examples of sociopathic willful ignorance and mean-espirted eeego presently found on the alleged newes. They represent the malady that plagues humanity. They are why we (as an ‘especies’) are failing. They are… Glenn Redneck, the O’Reilly Fukkker, $hawn In$anity, the $avage Weiner, Mr. Oxycontin, The Zionist Propagan-duh Wolf, etc.
Quite frankly… human beings are programmed to self-destruct. The baboonies on this fragile planet satellite will never break into the frontiers of DEEP ‘espace’. They’re doomed to forever wallow in tribe-all-eeego and the perverse political cruelty of religious dog-messes, Zionism being one of the most fanatical and racist examples. Oh yesss… the baboonies (humankind a.k.a.: ‘ewe-man-unkind’) are a clever breed… but they’re NOT wise or prescient.
What do I advise? I have three more things to say here.
1. WHERE THERE IS NO INSIGHT, THE PEOPLE PERISH!
2. WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE MAD(off).
3. EWE FOLKS SHALL REAP WHAT EWE $OW!
Oh come on people, every year about this time you can expect this kind of bogus “Scientists Discover. . . !” article. No one should be so gullible as to believe this, and you shouldn’t need April 1st to be the tip-off. It should be clear within the first couple sentences, given the headline and the goofy photos.
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No wonder America is in charge of blowing up everyone in the world in order to defend racists in Israel.
In 1972 I worked for a two-way radio communications company installing base stations, towers and antennas for Plessey, Motorola, S.T.C. etc. and my boss gave me $1,000 hand-held two-way radio so he could keep in touch with me, off-site as well as on site. I think it was supposed to be as much for fun as it was for work as far as he was concerned. After two weeks of being interrupted in the middle of eating, drinking or bedroom capers, I’d had enough, I told him to shove it, in those exacts words. He took it as well as he could, there weren’t too many as experienced in that field at the time so he didn’t have much choice.
When mobile phones first turned up I was amazed how many people thought they were a fashion accessory must. In fact, I saw fake mobile phones for sale – so that people could act and look like they were speaking into a REAL mobile phones – for a fraction of the price you had to pay for those original clunky brick-sized things. After that it snowballed. Every loud-mouthed peanut, who wanted the world listening to them talking to someone else who actually cared WTF he or she had to say, had to have one. Then the mobiles got smaller and noisier and eventually became cell-phones, the bane of public transport, lectures, movies and any place you hoped might be quiet or undisturbed.
Over the years I’ve had to use these devil’s contraptions for work-related reasons, however, no employer has brooched the limitations I put on the intrusion and call me on my landline whenever I’m not in the field. We never use cell-phones at home, only keeping one in a drawer for emergencies, the kids have emergency phones but they rarely need to use them, or, want to use them – they’ve got computers, the internet and a huge amount of amusement hardware, but, I draw the line at radioactive, radio-wave emitting products. When you fully understand the danger of high and low frequency radio wave exposure, in small doses over a long time or large doses over a much shorter periods, you avoid as much exposure as possible. The recent rise in incidences of certain types of brain tumors is an early warning that microwave radiation, even in small doses, should be… reconsidered.
Of course! Everything to destroy our people. Wake up European Kindreds. We must awaken.
This was described 30 years agi in “The Brain Revolution” and also in the late Omni Magazine
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Дя.. я скоро стану мамой. Чувства переполняют, хочется рассказать об этом всему миру!!!
Девчёнки, вы не представляете, какая это радость. А кто знает – не дадут соврать!!! А вот мой избранный утром, когда я сказала – сначала потерял дар речи, а потом всю расцеловал!!! *kiss*
So, are the characteristics of the magnetic field produced by a cell phone similar enough to those used in TMS to make this conclusion? Or did you just inject the cell phone part into this article (it wasn’t mentioned at all in the original release) to create false controversy?
Good question, James. To what false controversy are you referring? That a study finds that EM fields affect the brain? Or the location of the right TPJ? Or the fact that millions of people hold their cell phones against it?
Nice try at a “gotcha,” pertaining to my observation. But you are, in part, repeating the question (not a conclusion — I don’t say, for example, “cell phones suspend morality”) that I raise in this post.
I welcome your reply. I would also like to know who you are.
– MB
The EMF field must put us into an altered state.
..weaken our morale system and you will find corruption happening everywhere..I most certainly see a huge increase in corruption even in my own backyard..was this by design? to show the public a need for an increase in world wide security? to dumb down the conscience of the people who are the enforcers?
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