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by bonnie76 1638 days ago
I find John C. Lilly (not the former CEO of Mozilla) highly interesting despite accusations of Dolphin sexual abuse in his experiments. This interest is mostly a result of his outsized impact on science fiction and popular culture from Johnny Mnemonic all the way to Hawaii 5-0. This article addresses what I would describe as MK-ultra adjacent research at NIHM that bring to mind books like Flowers for Algernon as well as recent CIA torture programs designed to induce a state of “Learned helplessness” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/p...