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The Paddy McGuffin column

“People who suffer from paranoia can overcome their fears using virtual reality, new research has found.”

This was the boast of researchers at Oxford University earlier this week and we should be very worried indeed.

The study, funded by the Medical Research Council, combined psychological treatment techniques with state-of-the-art virtual reality created social situations to reduce paranoid fear, we are told.

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