dinsdag 14 januari 2014


Talking about Blurred Lines. I was watching this VPRO documentary on how human memory can be influenced. Start the video at 29:08 minutes. Maastricht based Forensic psychologist Henry Otgaar is explaining how he ''implanted the memory of an alien abduction in the brains of 7 and 8 year old children.''

Otgaar: ''In this research project, we showed a number of children a manipulated photo in a fake newspaper article, to prove a spaceship landed in their town that carried the aliens who came to take them away when they were 4. The objective was to observe if the children started believing this event actually happened to them. And it worked.''

The documentary maker couldn't hold back his disgust and more or less called these two researchers a couple of freaks for intentionally traumatizing children. He was right. No parent in the world voluntarily signs up his or her child for this kind of research project. So what the hell are they doing there at the Forensic Psychology Department?


woensdag 8 januari 2014


As of January, Maastricht University will be scanning mobile phone activity of the students.