The Reality Check Episode 71

Neurological/Moral Reactions + The G-Spot + Twinkie Shelf-Life

Neurons

Part 1:

So, how does the brain's neurological response to morally objection statements?

When we engage in others or ourselves in exploring beliefs or ideas, we often cannot help being emotionally envolved. Often these reacts are negative. 

The Reality Check is going to cover on the critical thinking part as well. After this part of the podcast, I'm assuming that we will be able to understand people's negative reactions to things because the lack of critical thinking. It will be covering mostly about the neurological side of the responses. 

So, how to do they test for the neurological responses? They use EEG, which is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp produced by the firing of neurons within the brain.

So, the method is having two groups hooked up to the machines that can perform EEG, and then ask them about things that would get them to think and ideas that usually makes people angry.

One group is all hardcore Christians, and the other group is the completely opposite. 

The scientists will present to the group a word by word paragraph, and see which word or part grabs the listener's neurological responses. 

The conclusion is when the people filled out the attitude survey, they found out that most people's neurological systems react fairly quickly around 200 to 400 milliseconds. 

So, the reactions are the true beliefs of the people who filled out the surveys. This technology might be used in the future for security.

Part 2: 

So, does the G-spot exist?

There's this article on the BBC News that was about if it exists or not.

The study made involved 1800 women and found no proof at all. The King's College London team believe the G-spot may be a figment of women's imagination. The term G-spot was coined by a German gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg, and there have been many studies about it since 1981. Sexologist Beverley Whipple is someone who helped popularise the G-spot idea, and said that the experiments are flawed. Of course she would say that, she has been promoting the G-spot for her whole life, and threw in a lot of money. Of course she's going to say it exists. She said that researchers didn't take into the account of lesbian or bisexual women, who have a different kind of love-making techniques than normal people. Another thing she said that people don't even really understand what it is, researchers can't just ask anyone if they have it or not. Co-author of the study Professor Tim Spector said: "Women may argue that having a G-spot is due to diet or exercise, but in fact it is virtually impossible to find real traits. "This is by far the biggest study ever carried out and shows fairly conclusively that the idea of a G-spot is subjective. Colleague Andrea Burri was concerned that women who feared they lacked a G-spot might feel inadequate, which she says is unnecessary. "It is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never been proven and pressurise women and men too." Dr Petra Boynton, a sexual psychologist at University College London, said: "It's fine to go looking for the G-spot but do not worry if you don't find it. "It should not be the only focus. Everyone is different." The Gräfenberg Spot, or G-Spot, was named in honour of the German gynaecologist Ernst Gräfenberg who described it over 50 years ago. It is said to sit in the front wall of the vagina some 2-5cm up. Recently Italian scientists claimed they could locate the G-spot using ultrasound scans. They said they had found an area of thicker tissue among the women reporting orgasms. But specialists warned there could be other reasons for this difference.

Twinkies

Science Myth of the Week:

So, does Twinkies last forever? 

They have stuff in them that make them last longer than most candy, but they still don't last long. The life time of a Twinkie is only 25 days.