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excuse me on the left over here we have
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individuals who are religious fun
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fundamentalists religious Fanatics and
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this is the expression rtpcr real-time
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PCR
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expression of the vmat2 gene over here
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we have individuals so so let me
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complete so over here we have uh
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individuals who are not particularly
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fundamentalists not particularly
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religious and you can see there's a much
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reduced uh expression of of this
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particular Gene that the vmat2 gene
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another evidence that that supports our
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our hypothesis for the development of of
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this approach
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um
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but by spreading this
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virus we're going to eliminate
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individuals from donning on a bomb vest
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and going into a market and blowing up
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so our our hypothesis is that these are
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fanatical people
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that they have over expression of the
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bmat2 Gene and that by vaccinating them
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against this will eliminate this
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Behavior
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uh so we have some some very very uh
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remarkable data in this next slide
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here we have two brain scans these are
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fmris
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these are two different individuals with
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different levels of expression of vmat2
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on top is an individual who's a
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religious fanatic and individual and
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we've repeated this numerous times that
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that has high levels of eman2 now
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this individual down here who had low
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levels of the bmat2 gene this individual
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would self-describe as as not
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particularly religious in in each case
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these individuals were were read a
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religious text this individual
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light lit up this the right middle
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frontal gyrus shown here and that's a
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part of the brain that's associated with
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theory of mind it's a part of the brain
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that has to do with intents and and
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beliefs and and desires uh in contrast
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in Mark contrast here's an individual
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who would not particularly
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self-describe as as religious and when
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they're read a religious text what you
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see is that this part of their brain
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called the anterior insula lights up
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this is a part of the brain that's
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associated with with disgust or
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displeasure on hearing something uh are
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you suggesting I think a CT scan with me
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when I'm evaluating people to determine
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whether I put a bullet in their head so
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so
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um the the data that I'm presenting here
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supports the the concept that we're
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proposing and I think that we would not
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propose to do uh CT scans or fmris on on
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individuals out in the Hinterlands of of
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Afghanistan the virus would immunize
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against this vmat2 Gene and that would
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would have the effect that you see here
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which is it's essentially to turn a
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fanatic into a a normal person and we
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think that will have major effects in
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the Middle East how would you suggest
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Ed well so so the the present plan and
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the test that we've done so far
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have used respiratory viruses such as
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flu or or
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rhinoviruses and we believe that that's
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a satisfactory way to get the exposure
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of the largest part of the population
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most of us of course have have been
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exposed to both of those viruses and and
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we're we're quite confident that that
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this will be a a very successful
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approach this is vestige what's the name
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of this proposal yeah so so the name of
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this project is funbacks which is the
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vaccine for religious fundamentalism and
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you have a proposal already
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The Proposal uh has just been submitted
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and I think that the data that I have
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shown you today would would support uh
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the the development of of this project
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and we think it has great promise
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