ArcticPrincess@lemmy.mltoInteresting Shares@lemmy.zip•Brain damage linked to increased likelihood of religious fundamentalism, new study findsEnglish
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2 months agoI mean, from the abstract it looks like what the study did was localise the specific network of right hemisphere neuronal clusters that, when damaged, predict religious fundamentalism. Since they only studied patients with TBIs, they weren’t testing the claim that brain damage increases the likelihood of fundamentalism. The rate of fundamentalism in the general population could, hypothetically, be higher than among TBI patients (i.e., if brain injuries actually reduce fundamentalism) and this study’s insights would still hold.
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