The instability of truth : brainwashing, mind control, and hyper-persuasion

"An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing -- and its troubling implications for today. Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don't recognize it while it's happening -- unless we know where to look. As Rebecca Lemov writes in The instability of truth, 'Brainwashing erases itself'. What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happ...