That is true, no mention of politics. Out of the 55 articles about measuring anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala response most were insignificant yet they were reported as high in what appeared to be a bias, maybe to gain more attention. Who wan't to publish a study that says they discovered nothing?
Now they were heavily criticized from the beginning for using the word voodoo so they later changed it to puzzling. Matthew D. Lieberman and others wrote a paper criticizing his paper and they did a bunch of back and forth on the research which I think is healthy. I'm not saying Ed Vul et al is right or wrong and I'm not saying Rees et al is right or wrong. I'm stating the Rees study is very suspicious due to too many factors and it appears most studies that return strong results from that part of the brain are suspicious. Now Dana said the Rees study was solid because it was peer reviewed. Then you both wanted me to dispute the data itself so I found someone who questions the measurement of the data. I can not request the actual data because it would be useless to me. Apparently nobody else did either since it seems to have been dismissed out of hand, sort of like I did in the beginning. I mean it's around for two years and only two cites. For something of this magnitude? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The meta analysis touches on some areas in neuro imaging that's I've > had my doubts about for a while. I need to spend some time carefully > digging through it, there's a lot there. One immediate issue is that > the study does not address the neuroanatomical covariants of political > belief. Rather it looks at the reported relationship between > activation and personality traits. So in one sense this study is not > relevant to the discussion. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347073 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
