Tag Archives: Mind control

Health insurer taps voyeuristic vein to encourage behavior changes

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Folks visiting America’s consumerist mausoleum, the Mall of America, are getting a lesson in dieting from a guy in living in a fish bowl for four weeks:

Scott, “The Human Do.ing,” will live at Mall of America from March 18 – April 16 to model daily physical activity and healthy eating and show how community support is a key factor in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. He will encourage others to join him in getting fit and eating right, thereby involving all of Minnesota in his quest and inspiring others to start their own healthy lifestyle journeys.

via PR Newswire.

Charlie Sheen’s 9/11 “truth” stance made him target of mind controllers, author suggests

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Charlie Sheen’s questions about the 9/11 attacks may have him in the crosshairs of mind controllers trying to embarrass the outspoken actor, says Sign of the Times blogger Joe Quinn:

Obviously, the topic I am broaching here is the possible link between Sheen’s public stance on 9/11 and his subsequent psychological collapse and the media portrayal of him with good reason as being ‘crazy’. Despite what many think, the idea that Sheen may be the target of surreptitious psychological interference by those who would prefer he keep his mouth shut about the 9/11 attacks is a reasonable one.

The idea, as in the case of former MI5 agent David Shayler, who become a cross-dresser and a self-proclaimed messiah, is to secretly drug and otherwise destabilize whistleblowers and outspoken government critics…

via Charlie Sheen, Mind Control, 9/11 and The Sixth Extinction — Society’s Child — Sott.net.

How ghost writers pushed bad drugs from Wyeth

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Telling lies for Big Pharma pays nicely, according to a new report in a peer-reviewed open access journal.

Wyeth, which makes menopausal hormone therapies, “used ghostwriters to create more than 50 journal articles with a favorable spin on the drugs,” even after the risks of the drugs was mounting, according to the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute.
More, via the Hastings Center:

Wyeth paid DesignWrite $25,000 each for articles that reported on clinical trials and $20,000 each for 20 review articles on the unproven benefits of hormone therapy, such as that it may help protect against Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

via Bioethics Forum – Ghostwriters in the Hormone Therapy Machine.

Guidance counselors will scan brains for career choices

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Photo: Anthony Joh/Flickr CC

When I told my eighth grade guidance counselor I was going to be a professional hockey player, and I didn’t need a “backup plan,” she scoffed, looked at my mom, and announced she would be writing in my record, “business.”

As it turns out, the counselor was right about the hockey. But she was wrong about the business. (Although I write for the Business section of the Boston Globe, I cannot say I am much of a businessman.)

Now University of California scientists are saying that brain scans might prove more effective than aptitude tests at guessing what you will be good at…

“A person’s pattern of cognitive strengths and weaknesses is related to their brain structure, so there is a possibility that brain scans could provide unique information that would be helpful for vocational choice. Our current results form a basis to investigate this further.”

via Medical Daily: Brain scans may help guide career choice.

Stuck in your online routines? Give this "drug" a shot

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Your avatar might be a candidate for a psychotropic drug designed to treat Wanderlust Deficit Disorder — in other words, Internet addiction.

The drug, Virta-Flaneurazine (virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com) is actually a bit of downloadable code that causes Second Life avatars to rapidly and uncontrollably teleport from one Second Life location to the next and to walk and fly in circles.

The idea is to get people thinking about how much time they spend stuck in the same old places, in-world and out.

via Stuck in your online routines? Give this a shot – The Boston Globe.

How depression damages the brain (and how SSRIs might make it worse)

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Photo: Gisela Giardino/Flickr CC

The University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers now suspect that inflammation, caused by major depressive episodes, might cause brain damage leading to dementia.

But SSRIs, such as Prozac and Zoloft, which are typically used to treat depression, also cause inflammation.

This CNN article (link and excerpt, below), does not mention SSRI’s, but instead echoes the researchers’ calls for treatment of depression in the elderly. (More to come on this subject.)

The findings, published in the journal Neurology, are based on nearly 1,000 people who were studied for up to 17 years. Researchers evaluated them for depression and dementia using standard clinical tests. Those who were depressed when first examined almost doubled their risk for dementia and also increased their risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

via Depression may raise risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, study says – CNN.com.

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Smoothing wrinkles blunts emotions

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If you treasure your very soul, but are tempted to buy a new(er) face, here’s my advice: Run, run like an outlaw Sandman, from the plastic surgeon. (The iconic, Farah Fawcett-plastic surgery scene from Logan’s Run, appears, below.)

Because so much of our human emotions are tied to our bodies’ abilities to express them, it makes sense that docs are reporting a measurable, soul-sucking effect of cosmetic procedures:

“For at least some emotions, if you take away some part of the facial expression, you take away some of the emotional experience,” says study researcher Joshua Ian Davis, PhD, a term assistant professor in the department of psychology at Barnard College in New York City.

via Botox May Affect Ability to Feel Emotions. Thanks to the Secret Sun for continuing inspiration, and to River Bottom Video, for putting Logan’s Run back in my brain.

Frying our kids' brains for perfect produce

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At least one is contaminated with Malathion. Photo: /Tetsumo Flickr CC

No one wants tics, fleas or lice on his dogs or his children.

And I understand that some gardeners will go to any length to have a perfect rose bush, or lawn.

I even know a guy on my block in Milton, Massachusetts, who boasted that he had stockpiled a recently banned grub control chemical in his shed. A perfect lawn is that important to him.

But when a Harvard scientist reports that kids with just a little bit of a common pesticide in their pee have 55 percent higher risk for ADHD, it is time to give up on perfection.

Scientists are still trying to figure out the sources of most of the Malathion they found in children. But a previous report found pesticides in more than a quarter of frozen blueberries and strawberries.

Weisskopf and his colleagues speculated that for most of the children in their study, exposure came through food. The 2008 report of the U.S. pesticide residue program found, for example, that 28% of frozen blueberries, 25% of strawberries and 19% of celery were contaminated with malathion.

via ADHD study: Pesticide is linked to developmental problems – latimes.com.