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Brainwashing: Scientists Discover How to Erase and Create Memories
Scientists have figured out how to make a
nightmare that is only found in comic books, movies, and spy thrillers a
reality. University of California at Irvine (Orange County) researchers
have discovered how to use chemicals to wipe or erase memories from the
brains of rodents.
If that wasn’t scary enough, scientists at the
Scripps Research Institute have figured out how to implant false
memories in rats. The same scientists have also figured out how to
eliminate the false memories without affecting other memories. What’s
really frightening is that these aren’t the only scientists doing such
work.
MIT neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa has figured out how to encode false memories in mice
by manipulating neurons using a technique called opotgenetics. That
supposedly gives Tonegawa control of individual brain cells. And when
considering just how much information the alternative news is putting
out, especially topics like Anthony Gucciardi has covered like the
existence of Constitution-free zones, they may have to go ahead and start wiping memories.
A Real Life Manchurian Candidate
These developments are frightening because they could
make the brainwashing techniques used by the bad guys in movies like The
Manchurian Candidate and Total Recall a reality. Corrupt individuals
could use this technology to make people do something against their will
and erase their memories.
Politicians might use it to erase soldiers’ memories so
they couldn’t tell the public back home what was really happening in the
war. Another use would be to reprogram people to do things that are
against their will, such as kill or steal. It isn’t clear who is
financing these experiments, but it could be the Defense Advanced
Projects Agency (or DARPA) which finances new science for the Pentagon.
DARPA has reportedly been doing a lot of research on mind control
lately.
These mind control experiments need to be investigated
now. We need to know who is financing them and what the real purpose is.
More importantly, we need to hold the scientists who engage in this
kind of research accountable. This technology could be a real threat to
basic human rights and individual freedom. We need to consider the
ethical implications before we move forward with this.
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