• @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    IDK, apparently the MkUltra program was real,

    B) applicant is 100% correct about what is happening to him, DEFINITELY not someone I want to get any closer to professionally, personally, or even be in the same elevator with coincidentally.

    That sounds harsh. This does NOT sound like your average schizophrenic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

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      59 days ago

      Oh, I investigated it too - it seems like it was a real thing, though likely inactive by 2005… but if it were active I certainly didn’t want to become a subject.

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        19 days ago

        OK that risk wasn’t really on my radar, because I live in a country where such things have never been known to happen.

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          39 days ago

          That’s the thing about being paranoid about MkUltra - it was actively suppressed and denied while it was happening (according to FOI documents) - and they say that they stopped, but if it (or some similar successor) was active they’d certainly say that it’s not happening now…

          At the time there were active rumors around town about influenza propagation studies being secretly conducted on the local population… probably baseless paranoia… probably.

          Now, as you say, your (presumably smaller) country has never known such things to happen, but…

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            39 days ago

            I live in Danmark, and I was taught already in public school how such things were possible, most notably that Russia might be doing experiments here, because our reporting on effects is very open and efficient. So Denmark would be an ideal testing ground for experiments.
            But my guess is that it also may makes it dangerous to experiment here, because the risk of being detected is also high.