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Injections of "truth serum," which some psychiatrists use to help patients recover their memories, have also been accused of inducing false memory. In these cases, doubters of the "abused" say, people's imaginations are inventing memories in order to shift blame for their problems onto other people. A recent U.S. News & World Report article said that skeptics believe the accusers "may embrace a `discovery' of past abuse because it offers a single, unambiguous explanation for complex problems and a special identity as `survivors.'" Skeptics, then, also seem to believe that the desire for attention, as it did the possessed...
...Medicine says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk, the theory goes, they are also sensitized...
Hypnotism, I learned from these half-hour jaunts through caves and graveyards, was mystical indeed. In an instant, a person (or dog) could be drawn into a seemingly snooze-like state and become malleable to instructions like "cluck like a chicken." Hypnotism was a truth serum, a behavior transformation inducer, a trip into the unknown and untreated side of the human consciousness...
...learned that Aleo does not use hypnotism as a truth serum--although once a customer did ask her to use the procedure on his girlfriend to find out if she was having an affair--but that she uses a combination of psychotherapy and hypnotism for more practical reasons. Hypnotism can cure insomnia, phobias and anxiety reactions. It can speed up weight loss. It can even help LSAT, GRE and SAT test-takers who are having trouble concentrating on those series of timed multiple-choice questions...
...Garcea said, the study's publication may bring more such cancer victims out of the woodwork for further projects. "We want to accumulate as many samples as possible," he said. "If the finding holds up, the next logical stop is a histological study of fetal serum...