The Science™ Now Earnestly Pimping ‘Mental Booster Shots’
The Science™ Now Earnestly Pimping ‘Mental Booster Shots’ Ben Bartee [Scoffing, dripping disdain] “You think governments and corporations and rogue mad scientists with infinite pharma cash manipulate you for their own nefarious purposes? Okay, Mr. Black Helicopter.” [unironically, in the next breath] “Let’s get some COINTELPRO mind control and a 50cc mRNA juice mainlined into this slob STAT and we’ll set him right as rain. Also, let’s send Hillary out there to float ‘formal deprogramming’ for Trump supporters. That’ll lower the temperature and restore trust in our sacred Democracy ™ .” I’m old enough to remember when filling people’s minds with certain narratives that just happen further one’s particular interests was known as “brainwashing.” In the clinical speak of The Science™, though, brainwashing is now rebranded as “memory-focused interventions.” Via Neuroscience News (emphasis added): “ New research reveals that short, memory-focused interventions can help indi...