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Customers have mixed but generally positive opinions on the interviewees' claims presented in the book. While some find the personal testimonies and eye-witness accounts intriguing and engaging, others are skeptical of the reliability of these claims due to the lack of concrete evidence and Ronson's perceived bias towards certain subjects.
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Military Psychological Warfare
Customers have a mostly positive opinion about "The Men Who Stare at Goats" as a book that explores military psychological warfare and its use of mind manipulation, with some expressing amusement over its humorous take on alternate histories and military conspiracies, while others find it grim due to its documentation of torture methods and black ops practices.
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This is an excellent book about the shadowy world of the psy ops in the military.
Stubblebine is the chief of the secret military spying units and after banning his nose against the wall he thinks he passing t... Read More
Brusso actually physically harms and provokes ronson, cutting and hitting him with the weapon and at one point hurls ronson acr... Read More
One of the more disturbing cases studied in this book are cases of torture, where captured soldiers or people would be tortured... Read More
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The odd thing is, is that the training and development of the program to condition human beings to learn supernatural abilities... Read More
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military, funny and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 2,366 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 10 2024.
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I watched a movie by the same title but it didnt give half the story that this book does
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Author jon ronson goes into considerably more than is included in the film
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Some of them come across as total lunatics while others appear to possess credibility
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The author talks about the story of a scientist working with the military at a base in new jersey the scientist whose name was frank olson fell to his death from 1⁄7 story window in a hotel in new york in 1953
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Shortly before his fathers death the scientist was given the hallucinogenic drug lsd
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The military story was that doctor olson jumped out of the window in the hotel because of the lsd
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I strongly urge anyone who reads this book to focus on that chapter about the death of dr
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The real interesting thing is anyone can be trained to perform this seemingly impossible task
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