From Ryan Sager - Neuroworld:Imagine a future where the Iranian regime didn’t need to spend weeks in the streets beating, killing, and jailing protesters to put down the reform movement. Imagine in this future that the beatings would be replaced with something gentler, but ultimately more sinister: non-lethal, weaponized drugs designed to decrease aggression and increase trust.
That’s the future imagined and fretted over in an opinion piece (non-gated, samizdat version here) and editorial (PDF) in the current issue of Nature.
My Comment: Chemical weapons .... but with a twist. This is a fascinating article, and probably more real than we think.
This reminds me of an article that was published in The Telegraph last year titled .... Future wars 'to be fought with mind drugs'.
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