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Brain Scans May Unlock Candidates' Appeal

Posted by michael on from the clockwork-orange dept.

Anonymous Voter writes "Applying some of the same brain-scan technology used to understand Alzheimer's and autism, scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican's mind different from a Democrat's."

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  1. This again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    1) This isn't a dupe exactly, but it's at least the fifth or sixth virtually identical story like this we've had.

    2) It's not an uninteresting question, but as the typically inflammatory submission here demonstrates, both the media and the jackasses here are unable to look at it in an un-stupid way.

  2. Re:Easy by cold+fjord · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.

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    much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell