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I few years ago i came across this little gem on the Trust drug & have been keeping an eye out ever since to see how its going.Now at the time it did occur to me all the applications that it may be intended or claimed to be for the use of might be innocent but.......... in reality it would likely be abused by others and used for their own means.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4599299.stm
Seems I was correct to be skeptical.
It appears the trials are going well but look here ... far from it being just tested on social problem people they do a study on guess what ?
Yup investment and trusting your Broker.....
That about says it all for me, this drug isnt just being trailed to be used for medical purposes its being looked at as a way to lie and cheat people into a false sense of security.
Its obviously easy to administer and hidden behind medical application benefits. Beware it will be peddled as a social drug pandering to geeks and socially inadequate people. In reality its also likely to be used by all manner of crooks & business.... & don't tell me im paranoid they just did a trail based specifically on investment & fraud.
Each trail subject were asked to contribute money to a human trustee, with the understanding that the trustee would invest the money and decide whether to return the profits, or betray the subject's trust by keeping the profit.
The subjects also received doses of oxytocin or a placebo via a nasal spray.
After investing, the participants were given feedback on the trustees. When their trust was abused, the placebo group became less willing to invest. But the players who had been given oxytocin continued to trust their money with a broker.
"We can see that oxytocin has a very powerful effect," said Dr Baumgartner.
"The subjects who received oxytocin demonstrated no change in their trust behaviour, even though they were informed that their trust was not honoured in roughly 50% of cases."
In a second game, where the human trustees were replaced by a computer which gave random returns, the hormone made no difference to the players' investment behaviour.
"It appears that oxytocin affects social responses specifically related to trust," Dr Baumgartner said.
Further details here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7412438.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4599299.stm
Seems I was correct to be skeptical.
It appears the trials are going well but look here ... far from it being just tested on social problem people they do a study on guess what ?
Yup investment and trusting your Broker.....
That about says it all for me, this drug isnt just being trailed to be used for medical purposes its being looked at as a way to lie and cheat people into a false sense of security.
Its obviously easy to administer and hidden behind medical application benefits. Beware it will be peddled as a social drug pandering to geeks and socially inadequate people. In reality its also likely to be used by all manner of crooks & business.... & don't tell me im paranoid they just did a trail based specifically on investment & fraud.
Each trail subject were asked to contribute money to a human trustee, with the understanding that the trustee would invest the money and decide whether to return the profits, or betray the subject's trust by keeping the profit.
The subjects also received doses of oxytocin or a placebo via a nasal spray.
After investing, the participants were given feedback on the trustees. When their trust was abused, the placebo group became less willing to invest. But the players who had been given oxytocin continued to trust their money with a broker.
"We can see that oxytocin has a very powerful effect," said Dr Baumgartner.
"The subjects who received oxytocin demonstrated no change in their trust behaviour, even though they were informed that their trust was not honoured in roughly 50% of cases."
In a second game, where the human trustees were replaced by a computer which gave random returns, the hormone made no difference to the players' investment behaviour.
"It appears that oxytocin affects social responses specifically related to trust," Dr Baumgartner said.
Further details here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7412438.stm