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@SmudgeTheInsultCat holy crapballs that is terrifying
I'll try to be more careful with reading news from now on...

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What is the source, please?

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are there any sources that could backup that claim?

I know that many countries had done such kind of "science" - but it's always good to have valid sources.

Edit:

Some background of the origin: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1960s-kgb-experiments-subjects-brainwashed/

Tadaa: "For this reason, we have rated the claim unproven"

FWIW, Snopes classifies this as "Unproven"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1960s-kgb-experiments-subjects-brainwashed/

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Old news …

Known and practiced by religions everywhere.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat Fake news. There is no evidence of this.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1960s-kgb-experiments-subjects-brainwashed/

#fakenews

@SmudgeTheInsultCat Unless they were experimenting outside Russia, it's important to take into account the psychological structure of the subjects they were starting with.

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Shades of the Stanford Prison Experiment a few years later. I wondered where Trump and Miller found their precedent.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat So, to protect your sanity TURN OFF THE FUCKING NEWS!!!

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Well, it works still just fine

@SmudgeTheInsultCat feels like more people would be worried about global warming if this worked.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat western countries in a nutshell...