"... “brainwashing” [is] a word-for-word translation from xi-nao, the Mandarin words for wash (xi) and brain (nao)... …"

"The idea of mind control flourished in pop culture, with movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Manchuria…"

"Had Chinese and Soviet Communists really uncovered a machine or method to rewrite men’s minds and supplant their free…"

"Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states.…"

"There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterize…"

"If you insert electrodes directly into the brains of cats and apes, they will behave like electronic toys. A whole se…"

"Stimulation of different points in the amygdala and hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety of effects, i…"

"The radio stimulated bulls underscore the classic symbolism of the bullfighting, that is -- the triumph of intelligen…"

"We knew too little about the brain. It is much too complicated to be controlled. We never knew which parts of the bra…"

"As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to…"