Disabling parts of the brain with magnets can weaken faith in God and change attitudes to immigrants, study finds
From 2015 By shutting down the threat-processing centre of the brain, scientists weakened people’s faith in God and made them less prejudiced the Independent, 15 October 2015 By targeting parts of the brain with a magnet, scientists managed to change subjects’ views (MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images) A joint team of American and British scientists have discovered that powerful magnetic pulses to the brain can temporarily change people’s feelings on a variety of subjects – from their belief in God, to their attitude to…