CNN offers us 'Religious thoughts act like love and drugs' so, right away, it's a story not to be missed since it's guaranteed bullshit right from the top. It turns out it comes from the University of Utah Life Sciences crew. Although Karl Rove graduated from this university, it's not quite as riddled with balderdash as it seems or at least that was the thinking prior to the report. (CNN: Religious thoughts act like love and drugs)
There's not much more to the report than the title as the claim is religious thinking triggers the same area of the brain as love or drugs. I'm not familiar with love and drugs affecting the same place and likely many of you are familiar with the term 'opiate receptor' which makes no sense at all as a source of love or a trigger for feelings of it. The research I've seen hasn't been so cavalier in its use of language as this one is deliberately worded to mean just about anything.
Note: CNN might have done the butchering as it wouldn't be the first time they trashed a science article.
In their test, the researchers said the area of interest in the brain lit up when devout Mormons said they were praying but we don't learn anything from that. What makes a Mormon happier than thinking how much they hate black people. They could be thinking about anything.
Stand back for the peer review of this one as that should be hilarious. If the review comes from Oral Roberts, it should be screaming funny.
Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph ...
we agree!
Who saw that coming, huh?
There's not much more to the report than the title as the claim is religious thinking triggers the same area of the brain as love or drugs. I'm not familiar with love and drugs affecting the same place and likely many of you are familiar with the term 'opiate receptor' which makes no sense at all as a source of love or a trigger for feelings of it. The research I've seen hasn't been so cavalier in its use of language as this one is deliberately worded to mean just about anything.
Note: CNN might have done the butchering as it wouldn't be the first time they trashed a science article.
In their test, the researchers said the area of interest in the brain lit up when devout Mormons said they were praying but we don't learn anything from that. What makes a Mormon happier than thinking how much they hate black people. They could be thinking about anything.
Stand back for the peer review of this one as that should be hilarious. If the review comes from Oral Roberts, it should be screaming funny.
Harrumph, harrumph, harrumph ...
we agree!
Who saw that coming, huh?
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