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XT
04-17-2007, 10:40 PM
In a recent Mythbusters show, they were testing hypnosis. I was wondering...whats the straightdope on this? I always THOUGHT it was a bunch of BS...sort of like all that alternative medicine stuff. But they SEEMED to be saying that, at least wrt a memory aide (they basically staged a scene then used hypnosis to supposedly get more details out of the cast than they saw without the hypnosis) that it was...confirmed??

I think this is a link to the Discovery (http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/quiz/memory/memory.html) site where you can take the supposed test yourself and see the results the cast got.

At any rate...whats the deal?

-XT

TimeWinder
04-18-2007, 01:32 AM
We're on this, over here. (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=416966) . Please join us.