Posted by Cam W. on April 2, 2000, at 3:22:43
In reply to Clicking the Amygdala?!?!?, posted by Susan on April 1, 2000, at 23:34:45
Susan - Neil Slade is one deluded puppy. Anyone who uses Art Bell references as scientific proof is not a scientist. Slade does not have complete acceptance of the scientific community for his ideas of the brain. He is not even trained in the sciences.His findings are not congruent with our scientists' ideas on the brain. In fact many of the articles he quotes are from journals in the 1950s and 1960s and are not the conclusions of the papers, but conjecture for further research suggested by the authors. The scientific documentation Slade provides is far, far from conclusive, and the matter of "amygdala clicking" is not settled.
"Clicking the amygdala cures everything, sooner or later." Now, that doesn't set off my bullshit detector at all (sarcasm). I particularily like the "sooner or later" part, as death also cures everything sooner or later.
Amygdala clicking is a widely accepted technique of weather modification. That will shut down all meteorological faculties. A technique that he has known for 20 years has been kept remarkable quiet from the public for a long time (I smell conspiracy) . Slade states that if you concentrate on clouds in the sky, you can make them dissipate with your mind. He has actually has a video of him doing this in his backyard. He says that no wind was blowing and he made a hole appear in the cloud. The atmosphere surrounding the Earth has many layers. There may have been no ground level winds, but this does not mean that winds in the stratosphere were not blowing.
Susan, Slade has shown no proof whatsoever of any of his claims. Unfortunately magic does not exist in this world (the only one we have). Granted, some phenomena are unknown, but we just have not elucidated their mechanisms' of action, yet. If Slade's claims were true and he has known them for 20 years, why has he not collected James Randi's one million dollar (U.S.) prize for proving a psychic phenomenon? This guy is a charleton and fraud (I will stand by this description) obtaining money from people who he cons with his fancy talk and pseudoscientific spiel.
Sorry that I do not share your enthusiasm about this guy, but frauds like him make life miserable for millions of people. I would bet that his "cures" for depression are based on the well known methods of biofeedback. Sincerely, - Cam W. (a reptile)
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