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OhGizmo!: Science Thursday: Selective Memory Erasure

  • Tim · 1 year ago
    It's been a long time fantasy of psychiatrists to maniplate thought and control people. Their current use of drugs include side effects such as suicide and homicide. Just take alook at every random shooting in your local Mall, college, high school, post office, etc. All those shooters were on psychiatric drugs. This latest round of BS research will kill even more people.
  • Mike · 9 months ago
    Hey look everyone! A Scientologist!
  • mcman · 1 year ago
    Drugs don't remove bad memories. I can certainly tell you that some people's lives are forever altered due to traumatic stuff that's planted in their subconscious. I think this is a good thing that would benefit many. Imagine if you could go back in a persons memory right before they started their road to depression and remove the trigger such as a rape or beatings from a parent. You could in effect stop cycles of abuse in generations of families for example. There are so many other things I can think of that this kind of thing would benefit.
  • Pietje666 · 1 year ago
    @mcman
    removing memories is never a good idea.
    Murders can go free cause nobody remembered that they murdered someone
    people who inflict mental damage to another should be punished for doing it
  • Jenna · 1 year ago
    Although I admit the technology is impressive, it's not something I would want. I need my memories to remind me of the stupid sh!t I did so as not to repeat it in the future. I can see where some would prefer to have their memories wiped clean so that they can live productive lives again and not be fettered by depression. But should they ever find out later about something they were involved in, the same reaction is going to happen as it did before. The answer isn't erasing history... it's learning from it and to keep going.
  • Mike · 9 months ago
    "The answer isn't erasing history... it's learning from it and to keep going."

    So if a child is raped you just say to them "well, hope you learned your lesson!"

    I guess that's pretty easy to say if you've never had a truly traumatic experience.
  • T · 1 year ago
    this reminds me immediately of the movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. who knew that could ever be possible?