"Trust In A Bottle"

[Dover]

Scientists study "trust in a bottle"

The Associated Press
Updated: 2:56 p.m. ET June 1, 2005

LONDON - Trust in a bottle? It sounds like a marketer's fantasy, like the fabled fountain of youth or the wild claims of fad diets. Yet that's what Swiss and American scientists demonstrate in new experiments with a nasal spray containing the hormone oxytocin.

After a few squirts, human subjects were significantly more trusting and willing to invest money with no ironclad promise of a profit.

The researchers acknowledged their findings could be abused by con artists or even sleazy politicians who might sway an election, provided they could squirt enough voters on their way to the polls.

"Of course, this finding could be misused," said Ernst Fehr of the University of Zurich, the senior researcher in the study, which appears in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. "I don't think we currently have such abuses. However, in the future it could happen."

Therapy for social phobias?

Other scientists say the new research raises important questions about oxytocin's potential as a therapy for conditions like autism or social phobias, in which trust is diminished. Or, perhaps the hormone's activity could be reduced to treat more rare diseases, like Williams' Syndrome, in which children have no inhibitions and approach strangers fearlessly...cont'd

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8059069/

I'll bet Bushco bought a whole shipload of the stuff to use on the sheeples.

[Pallas180]

1. Dover if I hear one more thing about "oxytocin" I'm gonna go

into hibernation again.

There's a nutcase over on another astrology site who irrationally talks non stop about oxytocin being the problem for the world's problems and that women fall under men's spells of oxytocin . therefore I have left that site.

Although, I agree with you. Dictators of the world would love to spray it from helicopters on the populace.

A healthy dose of skepticism or suspicion is not a bad thing.

Maybe the US media has already been innoculated with the stuff

[Dover]

3. .....okay that is just plain weird (falling under the spell and stuff).

Sorry that this subject is stalking you from one forum to the next
It's all a conspiracy to get you under our spells.........Bwaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa!
Personally, I've never heard of it before.

[davsand]

2. Oxytocin is used to induce labor and speed deliveries.

They call it by the brand name Pitocin. It causes uterine contractions.

I would expect that they'd probably not be able to use it with too much freedom simply because it could place just about any pregnancy at risk. In this current fundy "culture of life" I can't see them doing ANYTHING to risk a bunch of spontaneous abortions.

This might be one drug they are afraid to mess with a whole lot.


Laura