A leading neurologist at the University of Oxford said this week that recent developments meant that science may one day be able to identify religious fundamentalism as a "mental illness" and a cure it. During a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales, Kathleen Taylor was asked what positive developments she anticipated in neuroscience in the next 60 years. "One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated," she said. "Somebody who has for example become radicalized to a cult ideology -- we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance."
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