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Friday, October 16, 2015

Scientists Claim Zapping Brains with Magnets Can Treat Belief in God

Scientists Claim Zapping Brains with Magnets Can Treat Belief in God | The Stream: "Here’s the breathless headline: “Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God — with MAGNETS.”

Wait. Attitudes toward God and immigrants? Are these a natural pair?



The newspaper thought so. They tell of an experiment which “claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants.” How’s it done? “Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation” researchers can “safely shut down certain groups of neurones” in the brain."

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