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Now I’m not sure if I’m believing this because it’s based on scientific research or because there’s a picture of a brain on the page.

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Maybe the page itself is the research experiment and they’re polling people/running sentiment analysis on whether or not people are buying it. So meta...

In that case there should be a page for the control group without brains.

There are a few people like that. Apparently you don't need a brain to be a mathematician or french public servant:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/70204/man-without-brain

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/02/research.h...

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