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EM field, behind right ear, suspends morality

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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.

See what else Hub scientists getting up to, by following my Boston Globe column, here.

Quelle horreur: CIA dosed, terrorized French town with LSD

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Beware the baguette. Photo: Jeremy Keith/Flickr CC

Imagine what hundreds of Frenchmen went through in 1951, when they were reported to have eaten bread contaminated with ergot.

Several died in the incident, which unfolded over several days.

Now, imagine how their families are feeling today, now that a reporter has reveals that the CIA was behind the whole thing. Rather than being sickened by bread contaminated with the hallucinogenic fungus, it appears the CIA somehow introduced LSD into one town’s food supply:

“H P Albarelli Jr., an investigative journalist, claims the outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the US Army’s top-secret Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The scientists who produced both alternative explanations, he writes, worked for the Swiss-based Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, which was then secretly supplying both the Army and CIA with LSD.”

via French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment – Telegraph.

More: Read conspiracies historian Alan Watt’s remarks about government LSD mind control experiments (subtitled, “Why your parents are really screwed up”), here.

Scientists: Vaccines provide "herd immunity"

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Naked apes. Photo: Peter O'Connor/Flickr CC

By using “herd,” the scientific community belies its insensitivity, if not its outright contempt, for the rest of humanity.

Dose the kids, protect the “herd.” That’s the language hardhearted epidemiologists are using to describe how vaccinations work to protect human populations:

“An unusual study done in 49 remote Hutterite farming colonies in western Canada has provided the surest proof yet that giving flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call ‘herd immunity,’ none have been so incontrovertible, because they were done in less isolated places with more sources of flu passing through.

Stanhope to English, Irish, herd: "Go to hell."

Credit Canadian conspiracy historian Alan Watt, for noting how scientists use the word, “herd,” in a way that fails to jibe with any citation in popular dictionaries.

The scientists are, however, using the same, precise language of that obnoxious prig, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield,  Philip Dormer Stanhope (click the excerpt below, for the full text):

via NYT: Flu shots in kids provide ‘herd immunity’ – The New York Times- msnbc.com.

Snoop and Martha collaborate on edibles

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Score one for the soon-to-be-out-of-the-shadows pot industry, and its efforts to win the hearts and minds of mainstream studio audiences.
In this clip (Snoop Dogg on Martha Stewart), the rapper reminds Martha they’re missing the main ingredient.
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Must see TV: Marilyn Monroe getting blazed

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The release of this film, just as Wisconsin prepares to join a dozen other states with legal cannabis, appears contrived. But the market favors weed, at the moment. Not that it’s a bad thing. Audiences need a happy Monroe, right now.

From Reuters:

The reel-to-reel silent, color film was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for $275,000 from the person who took the film, who has asked to remain anonymous.

via Marilyn Monroe smoking pot | Video | Reuters.com.

No kidding: punks school others to be punks

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152316__bad_lStudy describes the failed interventions that bring bad boys together:

“For boys who had been through the juvenile justice system, compared to boys with similar histories without judicial involvement, the odds of adult judicial interventions increased almost seven-fold,” says study co-author Richard E. Tremblay, a professor of psychology, pediatrics and psychiatry at the Université de Montréal and a researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center.

via Delinquent Behavior Among Boys ‘Contagious,’ Study Finds.

MSM obessing over Twitter

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Photo: CC/Jim Milles

Photo: CC/Jim Milles

The geezer media believe that the kids love Twitter (they don’t), so they are flogging away at the thing.

WaPo columnist Kurtz cites this lame-o example of pop culture nattering (below), to bolster his threadbare argument that something remarkable is taking place in Twitter:

When I mentioned on my Twitter page that I would be talking on the air about Conan O’Brien taking over “The Tonight Show,” I got a flood of messages. Some called him a genius, others think he’s a goofball. What I quickly learned is that O’Brien is a polarizing figure in the late-night world, loved and loathed with equal fervor.

via Howard Kurtz – Howard Kurtz’s Media Notes: How Twitter Users Are Changing the Landscape – washingtonpost.com.

Money magick: marketers outsmarting savers

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They are more likely to spend coin. Photo: CC/Isis Massoud

They are more likely to spend coin. Photo: CC/Isis Massoud

To encourage consumption, study finds that coins are better than bills

Here’s a bit of circumstantial evidence that the conspiracy talk show host, Freeman, is right about money being used as a talisman by our occult masters, to control our behavior:

A couple of marketeers (one of whom appears to be a full-time consumer brainwasher) tell NPR that consumers are more likely to drop change on small purchases, than they are to break large bills.

(An episode of Seinfeld famously covered this human quirk: In the episode, George reluctantly breaks a $100 note at a bodega. It also highlights the flip-side of big bill paralysis: Store owners who refuse to break big bills over small purchases.)

If we want to get consumers going again, Raghubir says, we should hand out lots of change.

“If I were President Obama, the very first thing I’d recommend is increase the circulation of $1 coins and consider introducing $2 coins,” she says.

Likewise, she says the IRS should stop sending tax rebates as lump sums. “You could send us travelers checks,” Raghubir advises. “Send it in twenties, the way we get cash.”

via Why We Spend Coins Faster Than Bills : NPR.