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MIT Finds Cure For Fear
Doom con runs away writes "MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience. They did this by inhibiting a kinase, an enzyme that change proteins, called Cdk5, which facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context."
Because I saw some MIT guys talking to GIRLS!
President Bush introduced a bill this week to eliminate all research funding at MIT.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It is also called Liquid Courage. Drinking enough alcohol leaves me with no fear as well...
Conspiracy theorists believe the funding was provided by a group of cats ...
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I am terrified at the implications of this!
I hope to see commercials advertising fear-curing pills within the next few years so I can rush to the pharmacy with a prescription. In fact I think we should charge ahead with this and eliminate fear everywhere by putting it in the water with the fluoride. I see no downside or risk!
How can it be known fear won't be suppressed in similar situations where necessary flight or fight reactions are necessary to survival? oh, and also I for one welcome our new fearless squeaky rodent overlords.
uncertainty and doubt. I have no hope though that a cure will ever be found for stupid.
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...the Darwin Awards suddenly recieves a flood of new entries.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Well fortunately there's a cure for that now!
Fear is what keeps us from doing dangerous things. Fear is an important part of our survival system. Targeting contextual fears could be therapeutically useful, but I think "cure" is the wrong word. The ultimate word on fear, though, comes from Jack Handy:
Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, say you were an astronaut on the moon and you fear your partner had been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for moon pieces, WHAM!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, Batman!"
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> Why would you want to cure fear? Fear keeps me from giving in to a friend's bet and swallowing a live hamster.
Isn't that obvious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Factor
fear is good. It stops us from doing stupid things.
Like posting without RTFA.
Tom
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...I just use my Tremor Totem. Easy :D
It just doesn't last very long, gives you a hangover the next morning, and makes ugly women look like supermodels.
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I'm Batman, and I can breathe in space.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Good Lord! the font on my monitor is tiny, coupled with the word Chromatic, and I translated Peril -> Perl.
I want one of those "Perl Sensitive Sunglasses" that would be so darn cool.
There's already an existing elixir for this. It's commonly referred to as "beer." It's known to work exceptionally well on college campuses.
Arguably, fear of women is a learned fear similar to PTSD
Just similar? Say that next time your crush dumps you in front of the yearbook committee cameras!
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Without Fear, what will lead to Anger? Hate? S-S-Suffering????
Wanna check if a fear of bombs is innate? Set off some explosives near a newborn and see how they react.
I don't know, I've never tried it, but my money is on a total freak-out.
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Actually no, children do not fear heights. They will crawl right out a window or over a cliff. Happens with windows all the time in big cities.
Didn't the japanese administer mdma to their kamikaze guys during the world war for similar effect? I guess they needed a replacement, if they tried that now they'd just have soldiers with iPods dancing around nekkid :o
As illustrated in the BBC series Red Dwarf, episode "Polymorph": http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/polymorph/episode/1095 9/summary.html.
After an alien that feeds on negative emotion sucks all fear out of Lister, he volunteers to strap on a neutron bomb and go after the beast. Hilarity ensues.
And I'll be in Canada, high as a kite.
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