safe electronic brain stimulator

[Rich Grise]

One of the papers that I can't find now described how someone realized
that the Canadian government had placed magnetometers all across Canada
and all that data on tiny fluctuations of the earth's magnetic field
was just sitting there. So the took the hospital records for conditions
that were thought to depend on fragile biological rhythms and some that
seemed very unlikely to depend on rhythms. The chose sudden infant
death syndrome, a cardiac condition dealing with rhythms and as controls
stroke and something else. Then they looked for correlation between
the magnetic variation and the hospital records. And they found that
the sudden infant death syndrome correlated with the magnetic events.
I think they had statistical significance.

I don't have the paper but I did find the reference:

Geophysical Variables and Behavior: CIII. Days With Sudden Infant Deaths
and Cardiac Arrhythmias in Adults Share a Factor With PC1 Geomagnetic
Pulsations: Implications for Pursuing a Mechanism. Perceputal and
Motor Skills, 2001, 92, pp653-654.

366 patients, correlation > 0.3 only for the arrhythmia cases. Comparing
the day before the magnetic event the correlation was 0.05.


Some of them are pretty odd. But if you have more credible stuff
I'd certainly be interested.

Heh, heh, heh...... >:->

Told ya so!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Nicholas O. Lindan <[email protected]>


Yes. Fewer people with syphilis are killed in road accidents than people
without. Makes you think.

But not very long.

Heh. Yeah. Every year 400,000 people are killed by smoking. And 2,500,000
are killed by something else.

So NON-SMOKERS ARE OVER SIX TIMES AS LIKELY TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!
Rich

 

[ChrisGibboGibson]

Rich Grise wrote:

[snip]

Heh. Yeah. Every year 400,000 people are killed by smoking. And 2,500,000
are killed by something else.

So NON-SMOKERS ARE OVER SIX TIMES AS LIKELY TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's like 15% of fatal road accidents involve a drunk driver. So surely it's
the sober drivers we should be banning from driving ?

That's a joke incase anyone missed it.

Though statistically there is an argument.

Gibbo

 

[Paul Burridge]

I do, but nobody wants to hear it. )-;

Has anyone here tried walking around with a powerful magnet attached
to the top of their head?

 

[Rich Grise]

Rich Grise wrote:

[snip]

Heh. Yeah. Every year 400,000 people are killed by smoking. And 2,500,000
are killed by something else.

So NON-SMOKERS ARE OVER SIX TIMES AS LIKELY TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's like 15% of fatal road accidents involve a drunk driver. So surely
it's the sober drivers we should be banning from driving ?

Well, the sober drivers should be held to at least as high a standard
of driving expertise as the drunk ones are, if you want the "accident" rate
to drop.

"Oh, little Timmy was killed by a drunk driver" is just a way of placing
blame: "Oh, there was a drunk on the road, so that relieves little Timmy of
responsibility to operate his vehicle safely." A drunk driver is just
another road hazard.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Don Taylor]

Has anyone here tried walking around with a powerful magnet attached
to the top of their head?

To partly answer your question, I haven't.

But from the journal articles I've been reading, it appears that constant
magnetic fields don't seem to have been found to have interesting effects,
ignoring the whole Nikken obscenely expensive magnet therapy product line.
It seems that magnetic fields varying at somewhere near the frequencies
of some of the brain "waves" is where this gets interesting.

 

[Paul Burridge]

But from the journal articles I've been reading, it appears that constant
magnetic fields don't seem to have been found to have interesting effects,
ignoring the whole Nikken obscenely expensive magnet therapy product line.
It seems that magnetic fields varying at somewhere near the frequencies
of some of the brain "waves" is where this gets interesting.

Oh, I agree entirely. Replaying one's own brainwaves amplified and
slightly out-of-phase gives rise to some particularly creepy effects!