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About a decade ago, a U.S. brainwave scientist got permission to experiment on Indigenous children in Canada in an attempt to cure them of their traumas. One critic calls it ‘bonkers’

About a decade ago, a U.S. brainwave scientist got permission to experiment on Indigenous children in Canada in an attempt to cure them of their traumas. One critic calls it ‘bonkers’

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About a decade ago, a U.S. brainwave scientist got permission to experiment on Indigenous children in Canada in an attempt to cure them of their traumas. One critic calls it ‘bonkers’

From the moment Alma Stonestand heard about Biocybernaut’s 7-Day Alpha Brain Wave Training, she was skeptical.

In early 2014, her 12-year-old daughter, Chyna Gallerneault, came home from class waving a brochure promoting the Prince Albert School Study (PASS). It presented a seemingly life-changing opportunity for an all-expenses-paid trip to Victoria, B.C., for what one of the promoters called brain school.

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