Posted on 07/21/2011 7:37:56 PM PDT by Coleus
Ain’t science wonderful. Did they measure the brain size of “Hope and Change” believers?
Those are too tiny to measure.
The basic premise underlying this is that stress causes shrinkage of the brain. That sounds counterintuitive to me. Wouldn’t stress tend to cause greater blood flow to the brain following an increase in thinking about the stressful situation? Where is the physiological data that supports the conclusion that stress leads to brain shrinkage?
Maybe — just maybe — I don’t want to jump to any conclusions here ... but I’m just saying that this could be bad science.
Oh, what the heck: this is bad science.
This is Science?
Well, I guess my pea brain will be with the Lord throughout eternity. I hope those Duke fellors will be there.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
From Romans 1:22 and 2nd Timothy 3:7
What IF..... intelligence is measured not in the size of the brain but in the size of the spirit?..
No, they titled it that way deliberately - for those who never actually read the articles.
Seems to me I remember the nazis had all sorts of similar "studies" to justify their ostracization of the jews.
Really? I wonder why their title for the article was much less accurate and much more inflammatory than the title from the USA Today article they cite ("Study finds brain differences based on faith")?
It would never occur to these fools to look at why one brain may be heavier than another ... but just point them to fast food poison and they will rave against calories the fatties who live on Mickey D’s consume as compared to the leaner self-moderating folks. Brain physiology is not well understood, so the smaller brain of born agains may be due to less fractured fairytales filling up the little gray cells with progressive, liberal, marxist crap. I have no doubt these ‘scientists’ are all fatheads.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I'm beginning to think all "science" is politics now.
Wonder who funded this 11 year study and why the set about to measure the brains of Christians. Why not Jews and Muslims?
“The hippocampus is about the size of a green bean.”
And here I always thought it was where hippopotamuses went to college.
Guess my brain is small enough to be born again too, huh?
Maybe there is hope for me yet.
When I was in third grade, there were these three kids who had giant heads. I mean, they were enormous. But they were also the dumbest kids in the class. So, one day at lunch, we decided to do a little experiment. A couple of us measured the brain size of everyone in class. We did brain wave measurements and MRIs. Sure enough, the three big dopes had the biggest brains. But, for everyone else, it didn’t matter. Some smart kids had big brains, some had small brains. Some dummies had big ones, some small. Of course, a few kids wouldn’t let us measure them. In fact, they wouldn’t let us anywhere near them, so we had to kinda guestimate. We published our findings on the chalkboard, but the nun erased it that night.
“The fact is that most people don’t use the vast majority of their brain,”
That is an oft quoted myth. Not true. (Well maybe true for liberals but I digress)
I do believe the rest of your post was spot on, though.
All these alleged “studies” (looking at the American flag means you will be GOP, etc.) of late are utter partisan BS, period.
F the New American, I don’t read their collective BS anyhow. =.=
Maybe we just have less leaven.
You don’t need big harddrive when you are running off of the main server..
Oh that’s good, I just love it
Simple explanation: Atheists and their fellow travelers need larger brain cavities to accomodate the need for additional air space... ;^)
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