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Daniel Amen: “It's being done purposefully, right? You watch, whether it's…”

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The 11 Risk Factors That Are Destroying Your Brain - Dr Daniel Amen

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And the people that watched two hours of news showed more signs of post Traumatic stress disorder than the people who were actually there and observed it firsthand. Crazy. And It's being done purposefully, right? You watch, whether it's Fox or CNN, it's breaking news, breaking news, breaking news. It's the same thing they've been talking about for days. Everything can be breaking news, but apparently it is. But it's to keep your ATT attention so they can sell you more things and that should make you mad. (1:08:53–1:09:03)

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