Ethics

As a human I question why this has to be part of this information – why do we need to review or discuss Ethics in human research. Unfortunately history has shown that there are those having power that will do anything to keep it. The idea of remotely accessing biological signals raises concern about how such a system could be used. The unfortunate reality is that some people desire power over other people – and often those desiring the power should never be in a position to have it. One should be concerned about what biological signals are read, and whether consent has been provided.

It should be no surprise that the scientific community is starting to discuss the need to introduce ethics in brain / body studies (neuroscience). Extracting biological signals by remote means could be extremely dangerous – especially it were coupled with a form of feedback loop providing the abilty to read and write biological information.

While most people live under the illusion that there is a body of protection offered to us by a trusting body of individuals (government, organizations, the law, etc.), in fact this has been repeatidly proven to not be the case. I feel it important to review that in fact one person really will hurt another. There are many examples of this (both in research and real life):

• In the Milgram experiment, a Yale University psychologist measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure instructing them to administer electric shocks to a “learner”. After a bit of conditioning, most participants were willing to take the lives of other people on command.
• Recall the many unethical studies performed on prisioners by the Nazi during World War II [Sources: NCBI, Wikipedia].
• The US military performed one of the largest biological and chemical testing on civilians in San Francisco.
• Here is a partial list of some prior classified experiments the US Government performed on unwilling subjects.
• And here is a link to some interesting information relating to the results of all the nuclear testing performed during the cold war.
• Here is a link where we learn that the company known today as Bayer bought concentration camp victims during WWII and experimented on them.
• In more recent studies scientists tested how much oxygen premature babies needed for proper functioning [Sources: NY Times, NCBI].
• And a doctor, who advised that he was working for the CIA, that “treated” an autistic man – but in reality tried to erase part of his patients brain and turn him into a trained killer.
• And watch a movie, “Medicating Normal“, which is the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.

In reading the above, we learn that the ‘Hippocratic oath’ when sworn by some doctors doesn’t amount to much. On a positive note, there are some who fight for others, and do their best to raise attention to some of the experiments that have been performed. For instance, Dr. Peter Breggin, MD, has been an expert witness in legal cases relating to violent acts by those taking prescribed drugs, and has fought against and helped to shut down a Harvard Medical Center’s experiment where they were actually implanting devices into people’s brains. He is also raising awareness about the experimentation on premature babies, veterans and minorities. Here is a great video, where he is interviewed about the above [Other sources: Dr. Breggin’s Website – listing of legal cases, NCBI, Science News, New Scientist, CBC News]. There are also those family members unwilling to stop searching for answers – like in this case where a man who believes his father did not commit suicide as indicated by the US CIA is planning to sue the government.

MKULTRA

“MKULTRA” was established by the US CIA back in 1953, carried the support and involvement of US allies, and lacked ethics and regard to life with many experiments being performed on unwilling civilians, soldiers, and even children [Sources: The New York Times, Truth Stream Media]. The US CIA destroyed 70,000 documents during the Frank Church Congressional Hearings, but some survived. In an August 1977 Senate hearing, it was noted that, the US Central Intelligence Agency had secretly supported research on control of human behavior at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges or universities, hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies, using various code names such as: “Bluebird”, “Artichoke”, “MKULTRA”, and “MKDELTA”. Across these programs, significant illegal research was performed on mostly unwilling people, sometimes with the experiment ending with death, and with their interest in mind control broadening until there remained virtually no avenue of human behavior control that had not been explored – interrogation techniques to knockout drugs, LSD to germ warfare, the use of polygraphs to handwriting analysis, mind control to sexual exploitation and experimentation.

It all started years ago when the US Central Intelligence Agency was looking for a way to erase the memories of retiring agents! This 1980 video segment outlines the logical progression of the mind control program since it was first envisioned (another link here). I wondered why participating doctors, agencies, and government agents were not held accountable for their actions, but found this article and learned they were exempt from the law! Here is some auxiliary information:

• a 1979 ABC News “Close-Up”, Mission: Mind Control documentary.
• This second video, produced in 1980 by “The Fifth Estate”, detailing the role that Canadian Institution, McGill University, played between 1957 and 1961.
• Three CBS video segments from 2000 with Ross Blackstone investigating individuals claiming that their minds are being read, examines links to technologies and agencies researching the possibility. Video 1, Video 2, and Video 3. It is interesting to note that:
  • over 600 Japanese children watching a TV show that had flashing lights had epileptic seizures
  • a “Skin-hearing” technology is reviewed, which works on the principle that your skin will re-transmit radio frequencies onto your nervous system, which can then be interpreted by the brain as sound

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, here is a list (149 entries) of the MKULTRA sub-projects that were run. While MKULTRA is perhaps the most known, it is not the only program of its type run by the government – here is a list of some more experiments and operations.

I encourage you to watch these History Channel documentaries airing in 2009 called, “That’s Impossible – Mind Control” (Video Segments 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). I found these video segments to be very informative and cover a wide range of topics, such as:

• a device that can read thoughts
• the ability to control robotic arms with your brain
• replicating speech using a sensor that reads electrical signals present in vocal cords
• technologies that can be used to read minds without invasive surgery
• brain washing, and how to deconstruct a person’s personality
• governments allowed thousands of citizens to be subjected to illegal and immoral experiments
• microwave hearing devices that can project subliminal messages into the brain directly – bypassing the ears
• there is speculation that a super-secret research facility, known as HAARP, capable of generating powerful signals of frequencies common with the brain is being used to modify human behavior

It was great that this NY Times article covering the research that both Russia and the USA performed on Mind Control programs provided a connection to how the human body can be translated to an electrical circuit! Here is another article published by Medium.

Subliminal Messaging

Regarding the use of subliminal messages, it is well documented and has been scientifically proven that it can be used to modify human behavior. Here is a good documentary that defines what subliminal messaging is, how it is portrayed, and how it has been and could be used. In watching the video you’ll notice a segment on how the military incorporated this into their doctrine, introducing a division called, “Psyops“. Here is another video reviewing how it works. And another article on USA Today that suggests how it could be used to your advantage.

What Is Brain Entraining?

Brain entrainment is described as being any procedure causing brainwaves to synchronize with a periodic stimulus (sound, vibration, or light) that corresponds with an intended brain state – such as sleep, relaxation, deep thought, meditation, etc.. Binaural Beats is an audible approach to brain entrainment. This is where sounds are manipulated in such a way as to ‘manufacture’ specific frequencies that you do not hear – but react to!

Software developers are starting to take Neuroscience courses and make software programs that are aligned with these concept. For example:

• cell phones and tablets monitor when people interact with them and what triggered their interest
• software that determines how someone can be kept ‘engaged’ with a device – like casino’s that analyze the types of sounds and lighting that attracts people to their games
• software that determines when and what should be communicated to you – like an experiment Instagram ran that monitored the responses when “likes” were held back and sent to the recipient in bursts of varying intensities rather than when the “like” was selected [Source: CBS News 60 Minutes]
• ‘Therapy’ that is centered around the use of Binaural Beats in music / sounds. An example of a company having a large playlist of music. Hundreds of examples on YouTube!
• Another sound therapy solution, in this case a song that neuroscience claims if you listen to, you could reduce your anxiety by up to 65 percent.

And dreamers create patents in the hope of being able to profit off the ability to control others, or induce thought patterns in people – like this patent having the intent of inducing mental, emotional and physical states of consciousness, including specific mental activity, in human beings! Or this patent describing a method of inducing and maintaining various stages of sleep in the human being.