Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light - The New York Times

At Northwestern University, researchers turn on a blue light implanted in the front of the brains of two mice and suddenly "any animus between the two creatures seemed to disappear, and they clung to each other like long-lost friends." Parapsychologists have investigated the notion of interbrain synchrony before, but reporter Virginia Hughes dismisses the field as "a trippy field of the 1960s and ’70s that claimed to find evidence of ghosts, the afterlife and other wonders of the paranormal." She then cites as an example a study of identical twins published in the journal Science conducted by two ophthalmologists. She calls their study "absurd." The reporter's lack of knowledge about parapsychology and research on identical twins is astonishing. She then quotes a university physiologist who throws the journal Science under the bus for publishing that "hilarious" paper with its "methodologically questionable conclusions" on brain-to-brain synchrony. Maybe one day The New York Times will afford parapsychology the same respect it now (at least temporarily) allows on UFOs. (PH)

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