The original report on the Blicot announcement.

British Psychiatry.
The Journal of the British Psychiatric Association.
White Friar Gate, London. 19 of August 1999.

                                                     

                                                          The Blicot Bombshell

"Religious people and others drawn to bizarre philosophical ontologies such as so-called existentialism or  its Nazi version - Heideggerianism, together with those naive unfortunate loners  who wait on darkened hilltops awaiting   their chance to be involved as the target of an  Alien  Abduction and the like, have certain chemicals in their brains, which map a predisposition to irrational belief without proof."

Dr. Emil Blicot

Startling new authoritative evidence on the subject of pre-dispositional aberrant behaviour and attitudinal logic deficiency, have been discovered by a leading Swiss team of investigative psychiatrists and geneticists fronted by Dr. Emil Blicot of the Lucerne Clinic.

It is claimed, that when a person thinks of 'God', or 'Dasein' or the so-called 'ontological difference.' the brain chemistry and neuronal activity can be monitored, and the electro-chemical activity and reactions observed electronically which illustrates the errant cognitive brain processes. 'I have long suspected that there is a scientific explanation as to why some people - many of them highly educated and intelligent - are prepared to believe incredible assertions without any evidence to prove them,' said Dr. Blicot,

                                  Uncontrollable Religious and Philosophical  Mania

In an interview with a reporter from the French Radio station 'Lyon Vie' Dr Blicot said that in Swiss psychiatric hospitals, the more bizarre symptoms of uncontrollable religious mania and the severe ontological confusion characteristic of such cults as the followers of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger have been shown susceptible to cure by the use of certain drugs, but the delusional behaviour returns when medication is terminated.

The medical scientist also stated that he had been approached by representatives of the Chinese government who are concerned over an outbreak of religious cultism in their country.

Dr Blicot refused to be drawn on whether it is true that he has had talks with certain educational authorities in the USA and elsewhere who are becoming increasingly  concerned about the damaging effects of certain  university and college courses on young people which focus on the bizarre notions and reifications  of the so-called  'Philosopher of Nazism' -  the notorious Martin Heidegger,  or whether they were involved in the  funding of  this groundbreaking research.

                                    The Scond Blicot announcement from London.

British Psychiatry.
The Journal of the British Psychiatric Association.
White Friar Gate, London.
28th of August 1999.

Editor's note: We publish further material regarding the extraordinary paper by Dr. Emil Blicot of the Lucerne Clinic in Switzerland on naturally produced, chemically governed, irrationality modes with a consequent psychosis of religiosity.

Patently, Blicot sees religiosity as a chemically induced severe mental derangement, especially. when resulting in delusions and loss of contact with external reality. The accompanying copy is an account of a supportive paper by Professor Henrik Jacobson of Bern.

Eminent Swiss scientists from the Bern University, Department of Human Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology have welcomed the findings of the Lucerne Clinic outlined in the recently published 'Blicot Report on Religious Attitudinal Logic Deficiency. Dr. Emil Blicot, leader of the Lucerne team claims to have discovered chemicals in the brains of religious minded volunteers, which can be detected and monitored whilst the subjects are actively thinking of God or other aspects of their faith. Blicot's assertion that the pre-dispositional tendency to irrational belief is chemically assigned has led to a hotly argued controversy amongst experts in the field. The Bern team recognises the importance of Blicot's breakthrough and go on to posit an evolutionary explanation for this phenomenon.

                                                      'Beneficial Behaviour?

Professor Henrik Jacobson, head of Bern's respected 'Evolutionary Biological Research Unit,' claims that Blicot's findings support current thinking in the field of evolutionary biology, which is that nature deliberately 'selects' for irrational beliefs of unproved modalities, and 'favours' religiosity as a psychological mechanism for encouraging 'individually led morality orientated belief systems.'

    It is Jacobson's belief that in order to preclude widespread detrimental, disruptive activity and untrammelled sexual proclivity amongst certainunstable humans who are prone to this deficiency, a religious mind set is 'chemically'encouraged' by nature as a curb against the breakdown of societal equilibrium.

'Frankly speaking,' Jacobson told our reporter, 'steadfast, unquestioning affection, blind obedience, allegiance, and faith in nonrational, unprovable, explanatory systems are beneficial for humankind. An opiate yes, a discourager of rationality yes, but the following of the flock behind a charismatic religious leader or shepherd is a powerful mechanism for balance and steady progress. Religion precludes the widespread sexual licence on our streets that a complete absence o morality would allow.

Blicot's exciting contribution is the discovery of a physiological component or 'psycho-chemical governor' which kicks in with various individuals which nature considers 'at risk'.

                                                                 'Plicotonal'
'They think they've experienced 'a conversion,' Professor Jacobson asseverated, 'when in fact their neuronal system has been suddenly drenched with the 'God chemical' (or 'Plicotonal' as some scientists have already dubbed the substance.) Similarly other individuals whom nature considers 'viable biologically,' and 'psychologically balanced,' will experience a withdrawal or almost complete absence of the substance, which often leads to loss of faith, and atheistic or agnostic tendencies.