In today's complex social landscape, recognizing the subtle signs of manipulation is more essential than ever. Mind control, though a term often relegated to science fiction, is a very real and ...

Stephen Hassan comments on signs a person is in a cult, following accusations that 7M Films is a cult-like group brainwashing TikTok dancers.

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

L. Ron Hubbard, Operation Midnight Climax, and stochastic terrorism—the race for mind control changed America forever. On an early spring day in 1959, Edward Hunter testified before a US Senate ...

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My chief resident gave me a strange look when I arrived for another day of work at the Mayo Clinic one morning. “Something you’re not telling us?” she asked, gesturing to the two letters on my desk ...