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Nazism is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 “subprojects” involving …
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Link Copied I blame my dentists. Not for poor dental care—Barbara and Gordon do great work. I blame them for sending me into a vortex of dento-epistemological anxiety. On a tooth-cleaning visit not long ago, Barbara told me that in the late 1970s, when she attended dental school, her professors …
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Stephen Kinzer’s new book book is Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. No one knows what became of the victims. They …
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Visit a bookshop and you’ll find the True Crime selection is near-hidden, stashed away near the lav perhaps, and often completely separate from Crime Fiction. It’s a tacit acknowledgement that books about real psycho killers are seen as something of an embarrassment. But they sell. And occasionally …
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Glass shattered high above Seventh Avenue in Manhattan before dawn on a cold November morning in 1953. Seconds later, a body hit the sidewalk. Jimmy, the doorman at the Statler hotel, was momentarily stunned. Then he turned and ran into the hotel lobby. “We got a jumper!” he shouted. “We got a …
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A post on Facebook makes a number of claims about the chemical fluoride. The NHS describes fluoride as “a naturally occurring mineral found in water in varying amounts, depending on where in the UK you live.” It also says it’s added to many brands of toothpaste and to the water supply in some areas …
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Last year, the president’s defender Rudy Giuliani went full Orwell when he declared on national television that “Truth isn’t truth,” and objective facts are “in the eye of the beholder.” Such language epitomizes the era of President Donald Trump, who has told thousands of lies in office as …
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Troubling questions about surgeon general nominee Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr.’s knowledge of the “Tuskegee Study” have refocused public attention on one of the most infamous chapters in U.S. medical research.Over 40 years, beginning in 1932, 400 Alabama men — all poor and black — were denied medical …
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The Apollo 11 command module lands in the Pacific Ocean in 1969. (AP)We are living in a golden age of conspiracy theories. Even the president of the United States embraces them.This surely isn’t a good thing for our democracy or our mental health — and yet it can be hard to resist the urge to …
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MSNBC host Joy Reid faces new criticism with the emergence of more blog entries discovered in an online archive of her old, now-defunct website in which she raised questions about whether the September 11, 2001 terror attack was the result of a U.S. government conspiracy. This marks the second …
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