[bsdshepherd]

Terms such as 'kook', 'bigotry' and 'f-ing offensive' will not further the discussion in a positive way. Ad hominem will solve nothing.

Maybe citing the following will be useful:

Griefers have empirically demonstrated that websites can affect mental processes by using flashing images to trigger epileptic seizures.

Music in psychological warfare and torture is well documented.

The Amanda Todd death is sufficient to show that words have the power to kill.

[lutusp]

> Griefers have empirically demonstrated that websites can affect mental processes by using flashing images to trigger epileptic seizures.

That's true, but the conclusion you draw has a logical defect -- an epileptic seizure is not a mental process, it's a physical one. It can be started and stopped by electrical and other kinds of stimuli.

When you hear "epilepsy", think brain, not mind. When you hear psychology, think mind, not brain.

> Music in psychological warfare and torture is well documented.

Indeed it has, but there's no reliable science on that topic. The reason is there's no repeatable, objective way to gather evidence.

> The Amanda Todd death is sufficient to show that words have the power to kill.

The Amanda Todd death is sufficient to show that there's sometimes a correlation between words and death. To turn a correlation into science ... shall I go on, or do you know the rest of this old tune?

[bsdshepherd]

> The reason is there's no repeatable, objective way to gather evidence.

Not even wrong.

[lutusp]

Avoid an embarrassing degree of self-reference -- Post your evidence, not your opinion. Other scientists agree with my view:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

[bsdshepherd]

> Avoid an embarrassing degree of self-reference

Ditto.

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