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Ever-Happy Mouse Sheds Light on Depression
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have bred a strain of mouse that's permanently cheerful, in hopes of better understanding and treating depression in people. By breeding mice lacking the TREK-1 gene, which is involved in serotonin transmission, researchers were able create a depression-resistant strain. They say it's the first time depression has been eliminated through genetic alteration of an organism."
It's the 'scientists' that need to get rid of their depression. Animal torturers, by another name.
Read www.thehedonisticimperative.com
Do these 'scientists' think they've come upon something new?
All the governments in the world will do everything they can to stop people from being happy - otherwise they can't control us. Crime would cease, people would trust each other, and we wouldn't need the totalitarian regimes we have in every country in the western world, to keep offering us 'hope' of a future with 'less' crime, 'less' poverty, etc.
Finally - depression is caused by CHILD ABUSE, not by 'genetics', and not by a 'predisposition'. Dontcha just love that get out clause for the 'scientists'? "1,000 men were found to have a 'predisposition' for depression. 130 of them had had depression at least once in their lives." What does this statement tell us? NOTHING. What does the term 'predisposition' mean? It means - if the subjects in the study did NOT have depression, the scientists were 'right' because they only had a 'predisposition' to it. If the subjects in the study DID have depression, the scientists were ALSO 'right', because they only had a 'predisposition' to it. In other words, the oft-repeated word 'predisposition' is used by 'scientists' in exactly the same way as a voodoo curse, or magical chant - it is MEANINGLESS, because it doesn't actually mean anything. It doesn't mean you WILL or WON'T suffer from disease X. (And depression isn't a disease- it's a result of child abuse, and also a result of thinking certain thoughts and being very self-obsessed. You'll notice that on September 11th, 2001, when the buildings were falling and tens of thousands of people around the WTC were running for their lives, none of them felt 'depressed' any more - they were too busy running for their lives, and thinking about the 3,000 poor people who were murdered on that day.
Read www.thehedonisticimperative.com, and look at how wonderful the future of the world could be: imagine, a world without nasty people in it, only nice, caring, loving people. This isn't going to happen through politics, or the end of 'poverty', or the end of 'inequality', it's only going to happen by producing drugs that make people genuinely happy.
And forget all the bullshit you've ever been told about 'addiction': read "The myth of addictions" and "Addiction is a choice", two books that demolish the stupid idea that drugs can force you to take them! Millions of people voluntarily give up all kinds of drugs every single year, all over the world, without outside help. What happened to their 'addiction'? It's a word that has a USE, and that is for self-styled 'addicts' to blame their desire to continue taking their drug of choice, on the drug itself, rather than on themselves!