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Original air date: May 23, 2015BY: Dr. Elaina George, Host & Contributing Health Editor
PUBLISHED: May 23, 2015
Politically Correct Thought Police Play on Emotions to Quiet Dissent
Remember the rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you’? Unfortunately, the simple lesson thereof that may no longer be true. Words have become weapons in the hands of those who use your emotions to manipulate and control your behavior. The discipline of neurolinguistics, which is study of neural mechanisms in the human brain that controls comprehension, acquisition, and use of language is increasingly being employed to drive social engineering & public policy to manipulate everything from behavior to self censorship. Dr. Elaina George discusses how to avoid falling into the trap of the contemporary politically correct though police.