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Topic: Myth Busters
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BrunswickT
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posted 01-16-2008 09:26 PM
  
I don't know if this segment has been on before, but I just caught one of their experiments using a polygraph.
The examination of each team member concerned only questions that were apparently designed to simply stimulate a reaction. No particular format, or protocol. Both were laughing during the examination because of the content of the questions, yet admitted lies were recorded as obvious DI responses. The instrument used was a Stoelting Analog.
The idea was just to see if the instrument was working properly, as far as they could tell.
The real experiment was to determine if Cleve Backster's theory that all living cells respond to stimulus such as fear or injury was valid or busted.
The GSR component was attached to a large plant, an indoor large leaf rubber plant (maybe)??
When one of the team struck the plant, there was a reaction.
When the team member used a fire extinguisher on the plant, there was a reaction.
When a team member concentrated his thoughts about doing harm to the plant, there was a reaction.
Somehow they concluded that the plant reacted to 35% of the directed thoughts when the team member was near the plant, but 28% of the time when the member was outside of the proximity to the plant.
An EEG was also used similarly with no results.
Somehow they concluded Baxter's position as invalid, because the plant did not react to other living cells being injured or threatened.
Did anyone else see this segment, or have conducted similar experiments?
I'd like to hear the in-put!! ------------------
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stat
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posted 01-16-2008 10:11 PM
Ah, a fellow Hoosier. Hey man!Props from Indy. I have ran plenty of tests in your area. Got a snow mobile or a taun taun? lolI have had some free time lately, but I have no plants. I have a neighbor with a fruity haircut, but alas....probably not useful for experimentation.
If I knew precisely what kind of plant to buy, me and my older sons (4 and 6) might enjoy a little science project. 
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"This is our hill and these are our beans."----
Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, Naked Gun 1988
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Ted Todd
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posted 01-16-2008 10:33 PM
BrunswikT,Can you post a link? Ted "Hill our this beans and is these are our"
Sr. Inspector T. Todd. (sorry stat) [This message has been edited by Ted Todd (edited 01-16-2008).] [This message has been edited by Ted Todd (edited 01-17-2008).] IP: Logged |
rnelson
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posted 01-16-2008 10:37 PM
You've got to do it. I heard it was a rubber tree.
You'll need a couple of these... 
r 
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stat
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posted 01-16-2008 10:38 PM
Ted---sure, just walk on by in this virtual realm and not say "hey."I knooowwww you can't possibly be fuming over the "twin sister" crack.
right?
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stat
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posted 01-16-2008 10:41 PM
Rubber trees are kinda pricey, aren't they?I wonder if I can get one from a nice nearby hotel lobby. lol oops there goes, another..... IP: Logged |
Ted Todd
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posted 01-16-2008 10:46 PM
HeyI don't mean to drop a bomb here but...when I attended Backster's school and toured the lab, I saw nothing but artificial plants?? Ted IP: Logged | |
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