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Remote Mind Control Technology

January 22, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

There had been an ongoing controversy over health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) for years (e.g., extremely low frequency radiation and the Navy's Project Seafarer; emissions of high power lines and video display terminals; radar and other military and industrial sources of radio frequencies and microwaves, such as plastic sealers and molders). Less is known of Department of Defense (DOD) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interest in anti-personnel applications of the invisible energies. The ability of certain parameters of EMF; to cause health effects, including neurological and behavioral disturbances, has been part of the military and CIA arsenal for years.

Capabilities of the energies to cause predictable and exploitable effects or damages can be gleaned from discussion of health effects from environmental exposures. Interestingly, some scientists funded by the DOD or CIA to research and develop invisible electromagnetic weapons have voiced strong concern (perhaps even superior knowledge or compensatory to guilt) over potentially serious consequences of environmental exposures.

Eldon Byrd who worked for Naval Surface Weapons,...

Acid Dreams | The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion

January 23, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

In the spring of 1942, General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, chief of the OSS, the CIA's wartime predecessor, assembled a half-dozen prestigious American scientists and asked them to undertake a top-secret research program. Their mission, Donovan explained, was to develop a speech-inducing drug for use in intelligence interrogations. He insisted that the need for such a weapon was so acute as to warrant any and every attempt to find it.

The use of drugs by secret agents had long been a part of cloak-and-dagger folklore, but this would be the first concerted attempt on the part of an American espionage organization to modify human behavior through chemical means. "We were not afraid to try things that had never been done before," asserted Donovan, who was known for his freewheeling and unconventional approach to the spy trade. The OSS chief pressed his associates to come up with a substance that could break down the psychological defenses of enemy spies and POWs, thereby causing an uninhibited disclosure of

Eyewitness Evidence Improving Its Probative Value

February 10, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

SUMMARY

The criminal justice system relies heavily on eyewitnesses to determine the facts surrounding criminal events. Eyewitnesses may identify culprits, recall conversations, or remember other details. An eyewitness who has no motive to lie is a powerful form of evidence for jurors, especially if the eyewitness appears to be highly confident about his or her recollection. In the absence of definitive proof to the contrary, the eyewitness’s account is generally accepted by police, prosecutors, judges, and juries. However, the faith the legal system places in eyewitnesses has been shaken recently by the advent of forensic DNA testing. Given the right set of circumstances, forensic DNA testing can prove that a person who was convicted of a crime is, in fact, innocent. Analyses of DNA exoneration cases since 1992 reveal that mistaken eyewitness identification was involved in the vast majority of these convictions, accounting for more convictions of innocent people than all other factors combined. We review the latest figures on these DNA exonerations and explain why these...

The Experts Aren’t Reliable Either: Why Expert Testimony on the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony is Unwarranted in Alabama State Courts

February 12, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

Introduction

Over the past twenty years, the legal community and the American public have witnessed the exposure of several cases of wrongful convictions in the past through the use of DNA evidence and other modern scientific techniques exonerating the accused. This has lead to the founding of several organizations designed to combat wrongful convictions and to lobby for the correction of the factors contributing to such convictions, as well as investigations and recommendations concerning criminal procedural safeguards and other measures by federal and state authorities. One factor consistently identified as problematic is erroneous eyewitness testimony or identification, which is found to be a factor in over two-thirds of the documented cases of wrongful conviction in the United States. Commentators, courts, and others have offered several approaches to the problem of faulty eyewitness identifications, ranging from the exclusion of questionable eyewitness testimony altogether to the prohibition of any conviction based solely on uncorroborated eyewitness testimony. Another suggested solution and recent trend of the criminal...

The Effects of Witness Viewpoint Distance Angle and Choice on Eyewitness Accuracy in Police Lineups Conducted in Immersive Virtual Environments

February 10, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

Abstract

The current study investigated the value of using immersive virtual environment technology as a tool for assessing eyewitness identification. Participants witnessed a staged crime and then examined sequential lineups within immersive virtual environments that contained 3D virtual busts of the suspect and six distractors. Participants either had unlimited viewpoints of the busts in terms of angle and distance, or a unitary view at only a single angle and distance. Furthermore, participants either were allowed to choose the angle and distance of the viewpoints they received, or were given viewpoints without choice. Results demonstrated that unlimited viewpoints improved accuracy in suspect-present lineups but not in suspect-absent lineups. Furthermore, across conditions, post-hoc measurements demonstrated that when the chosen view of the suspect during the lineup was similar to the view during the staged crime in terms of distance, accuracy improved. Finally, participants were more accurate in suspect-absent lineups than in suspect-present lineups. Implications of the findings in terms of theories of...

False Assumptions Regarding Eyewitness Memory and Perception

February 10, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

I. Background.

It has been estimated that each year approximately 77,000 individuals are arrested in the United States as suspects in cases where the principal evidence against the defendant is testimony from eyewitnesses (Goldstein, Chance, & Schneller, 1989). In a study of 500 cases where a felony conviction was set aside because of clear and convincing new evidence, 60 percent of the cases hinged around eyewitness identifications (Huff, Rattner, & Sagarin, 1986). A similar result was obtained from a sample of 205 additional such cases (Rattner, 1988). In a 1986 survey of judges, prosecutors, and lawenforcement professionals, 8 out of 10 respondents concluded that, in their experience, witness error was the most common sourceof wrongful conviction (Huff et al., 1986). Wells (1993) has documented 1,000 additional such cases since 1986. Even Thucydides (411 BC.), perhaps the first oral historian known, remarked that his history of the Peloponesian War was laborious because the accounts of eyewitnesses to the same event varied so greatly. Legal scholar and...

Eyewitnesses Experts and Jurors: Improving The Quality of Jury Decision Making in Eyewitness Cases

February 11, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

In recent years it has been increasingly common for criminal defense attorneys to challenge the reliability of eyewitness identifications through the introduction of expert psychological testimony concerning problems of eyewitness identification. The acceptance of expert psychological testimony on issues associated with eyewitness memory is source of heated debate (McCloskey & Egeth, 1986). Much of the debate centers around three issues raised by lawyers and psychologists who oppose the introduction of expert eyewitness testimony: (1) is there a adequate scientific base of knowledge upon which to base expert testimony; (2) is psychological knowledge about eyewitness memory beyond the ken of the jury; and (3) what are the effects of expert psychological testimony on jury decision making? In this essay we report the results of several studies we and our colleagues have conducted in an effort to answer these questions. The Quality of the Research on which Expert Testimony is Based Some psychologists doubt that the existing body of research and theory on human memory...

Eyewitness Lineups: Is the Appearance-Change Instruction a Good Idea?

February 10, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

The Department of Justice’s Guide for lineups recommends warning eyewitnesses that the culprit’s appearance might have changed since the time of the crime. This appearance-change instruction (ACI) has never been empirically tested. A video crime with four culprits was viewed by 289 participants who then attempted to identify the culprits from four 6-person arrays that either included or did not include the cul-prit. Participants either received the ACI or not and all were warned that the culprit might or might not be in the arrays. The culprits varied in how much their appearance changed from the video to their lineup arrays, but the ACI did not improve identi- fication decisions for any of the lineups. Collapsed over the four culprits, the ACI increased false alarms and filler identifications but did not increase culprit identifi- cations. The ACI reduced confidence and increased response latency. Two processes that could account for these results are discussed, namely a decision criterion shift and a general increase in ecphoric similarity...

Eyewitness Memory for People and Events

February 12, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

Abstract

The two primary aspects of eyewitness testimony, namely, memory for events and memory for people, are reviewed. The chapter utilizes a metaphor that likens eyewitness memory to trace evidence. Like other types of trace evidence (e.g., crime scene blood, fibers), a major concern exists regarding how the evidence is collected. Research on memory for events is reviewed with respect to misinformation effects, planting false childhood memories, the influence of imagination on memory reports, and other suggestive procedures. Research on memory for people is reviewed with respect to variables that affect identification accuracy (such as lineup structure) and the process governing lineup identifications (relative judgments). A classification scheme is introduced that partitions eyewitness identification variables into the categories of general impairment variables versus suspect‐bias variables and crosses this categorization scheme with other categorization schemes (e.g., system versus estimator variables, witness characteristics versus event characteriuh uh ustics). The general thesis of the chapter is that eyewitness memory evidence needs to be collect

Cutaneous Complications of Intravenous Drug Abuse

February 10, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

Summary
Injection drug abuse is a world-wide problem responsible for numerous minor to life-threatening and fatal complications. The skin is the tissue most evidently affected by intravenous drug addiction. A wide spectrum of cutaneous complications may occur in intravenous drug users. These include acute or delayed local complications, hypersensitivity reactions, cutaneous manifestations of systemic infections or becoming the site of toxigenic infections. Between 1996 and 2001, in our institution in south-eastern France, we observed cutaneous complications after crushed buprenorphine tablet injections in 13 patients. This paper reviews and classifies adverse effects of parenteral drug abuse on the skin.

Introduction
Injection drug abuse is a world-wide problem responsible for numerous minor to life-threatening and fatal complications.[1] These complications depend mainly on the drug, the dose injected, the method of delivery, the site of injection and the presence of infectious agents. Overdose and the transmission of blood-borne infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis viruses B and C through sharing unsterile injection equipment are well known ...

Description and Recognition of an Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in an Emergency Call

February 11, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

The first link in the chain of survival,1 early call, includes the dispatchers’ recognition of a cardiac arrest. It takes a relatively long time for the emergency medical dispatcher to recognize a cardiac arrest. In Seattle, the average recognition time from the start of the call to the start of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions is 75 seconds. Factors contributing to no or delayed recognition of cardiac arrest include vague description of breathing and agonal breathing, unnecessary questions, and little experience in call taking.2–5 As a result, dispatching may be unduly delayed, the wrong level of ambulance is sent, and no telephone CPR instructions are offered.6 Current guidelines call for CPR in unconscious patients when breathing is not normal.7 A similar rule is applied in dispatcher protocols to recognize a cardiac arrest for ambulance dispatch and telephone-instructed CPR. In 1986, Eisenberg et al8 suggested almost 100% sensitivity when those questions were asked to identify a cardiac arrest. However, this was never confirmed by other studies....

Effects of Propofol Analogs on Glucuronidation of Propofol, an Anesthetic Drug, by Human Liver Microsomes

February 10, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

INTRODUCTION

UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) catalyze the glucuronidation of a broad spectrum of endobiotic and xenobiotic substrates . In general, the resulting glucuronides are more hydrophilic, facilitating renal and biliary excretion. In addition to hepatic metabolism, high rates of gastrointestinal glucuronidation in rats and humans have been observed . Propofol (2,6-diisopropylphenol) is administered as a bolus for the induction of anesthesia and as an infusion for maintenance of anesthesia or for sedation. A rapid and complete recovery is a major advantage of this drug, which is attributable to extensive biotransformation of the parent compound. Propofol is suggested to be a substrate for one of the UGT isoforms, UGT1A9 [6,7]. There is a hypothesis that propofol could be orally used with a suitable inhibitor among analogs for preventing its rapid glucuronidation [8]. In order to seek for a suitable inhibitor of propofol biotransformation, we investigated the interactions between propofol and its analogs in the glucuronidation by recombinant human...

Sleep in the Substance Using Population

February 12, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

The effect of any psychoactive substance on an individual’s sleep will depend on whether that substance is a stimulant, depressant, or has other effects on the brain. A schema is portrayed in Figure 1 (see page 842). The effect of withdrawal from the substance generally will be opposite to the intoxication effects. Psychoactive substances are classifi ed as sedative hypnotics, stimulants, opioids, hallucinogens, and arylcyclohexylamines.

EFFECTS OF SUBSTANCES ON SLEEP

Alcohol

Alcohol is perhaps the best-studied substance in connection with sleep disturbances. Studies show that 13% of the general population used alcohol in the past year to go to sleep, and The effect of any psychoactive substance on an individual’s sleep will depend on whether that substance is a stimulant, depressant, or has other effects on the brain. A schema is portrayed in Figure 1 (see page 842). The effect of withdrawal from the substance generally will be opposite to the intoxication effects. Psychoactive substances are classifi ed as sedative hypnotics, stimulants, opioids, hallucinogens, and arylcyclohexylamines.

The Use of Curare in Anesthesia A Review of 100 Cases

February 12, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

Good muscular relaxation is one of the requirements for efficient abdominal surgery, and in order to obtain this relaxation surgeons and anesthetists have sometimes used anesthetic drugs and methods which are toxic or hazardous. The introduction of curare into clinical medicine has made it possible for us to obtain complete muscular relaxation at any time during anesthesia with nontoxic controllable anesthetic agents. After more than two years of careful clinical observation I have come to the conclusion that curare is a safe drug to use in combination with certain anesthetic agents, provided it is administered under properly controlled conditions.

The story of the transformation of this South American Indian arrow poison into an anesthetist's tool may be told briefly as follows: Curare has been known to science since 1595, when Hakluyt referred to it in his description of Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage up the Orinoco. In 1840 Claude Bernard,

Additional Resource: Curare In Anesthesia

Toxicology: Drugs and Poisons In Forensic Science

February 12, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

1. Toxicology: Drugs and Poisons Forensic Science

2 Toxicology Toxicology - Mix of Chemistry and Physiology that deals with drugs, poisons, and other toxic substances. Began in 1775 when Swedish chemist Karl Scheele discovered a way to prove arsenic was the culprit in a suspicious death.

3 Poisons ANY substance that when taken in sufficient quantities causes a harmful or deadly reaction. (Sufficient quantities how much enters the body, over what period of time) . Intoxicant requires an ingestion of large quantities before it is lethal Ex: Carbon Monoxide, Alcohol, heavy metals (mercury, lead, selenium) 2. True Poison requires only a tiny amount - Ex: Cyanide

4 The Forensic Toxicologist Finds toxins and determines the likely effect on the individual who ingested or came in contact with it. Examples: Inebriation in an automobile accident or industrial accident Whether a person died from poison or from natural cause? Whether drugs played a role in a perpetrator’s actions or in seizures or coma?...

Speedball and Crack Injection in London | Groins, Veins and Injecting Environment

February 12, 2019July 16, 2017 by admin

Speedball and crack injection in London groins, veins and injecting environment THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON DRUGS AND HEALTH BEHAVIOUR Tim Rhodes Jo Kimber, Daniel Briggs, Vivian Hope, Greg Holloway, Steve Jones

2 crack and groin injecting Six City Study in England, n=952, 2003/2004, Hope et al o n=952, six locations o 45% groin injecting o 40% crack/speedball injecting o > 70% crack injection Bristol & Manchester, and > 50% London [Judd et al., 2005] o crack injectors more likely to be groin injectors (49% vs 34%) o groin injectors more likely to have an open wound infection (26% vs 18%) and DVT in last year (28% vs 8%) Rhodes et al. (2006) “Groin injecting in the context of crack cocaine and homelessness”, International Journal of Drug Policy, 17: 164-170.

4 qualitative study speedball injectors (n=44), Bristol and London, 2006 median age, 33 (range 23-53) male, 75% homeless in past year, 69% speedball in past month, 80% mean years speedball, 7 (<1-23 years)...