Developed in the 1970s by self-help guru Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, due to their mutual disdain for traditional talk therapy, NLP is a “mishmash of a bunch of different techniques,” as ...

Words like “mind control” and “brainwashing” get tossed around, but it is a very real science and a very dangerous game that former CIA operative and now conservative talk show host Buck Sexton calls ...

A Chinese programmer sent about $6.8 million in ETH to burn addresses and donations, claiming corporations were using mind-control technology to enslave people. A Chinese man transferred more than ...

Editor’s note: Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can ...

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 ...