This videos is awash with logical fallacies and factual inconsistencies.
Case in point, that of the French villagers who experienced hallucinatory episodes: in 1951 seven people died and a few hundred were sickened, scores of whom were committed to insane asylums. The scientific finding ? published as early as that same year in the British Medical Journal ? is that it was a case of ergot fungus contaminating the food supply. Ergot contamination of rye wheat causes convulsions, insomnia, pain, hallucination, and delirium. These symptoms might last hours or months.
There are three points to consider here:
1- The effects described were identical to those expected from the known ergot contamination, no introduction of a conspiracy theory is needed to explain the event.
2- The ergot fungus is one of the key ingredients in LSD synthesis. To a non-expert outside observer, the psychoactive effects of the two are difficult to distinguish
3- MKULTRA was founded in 1953, two years AFTER the events in France.
The cool thing about conspiracy theories is that, if skilfully presented, can make the casual observer think that the evidence for them is almost undeniable. However, once each of the pieces of evidence is properly reviewed and Occam's razor is correctly applied, they invariably fall to pieces.
Case in point, that of the French villagers who experienced hallucinatory episodes: in 1951 seven people died and a few hundred were sickened, scores of whom were committed to insane asylums. The scientific finding ? published as early as that same year in the British Medical Journal ? is that it was a case of ergot fungus contaminating the food supply. Ergot contamination of rye wheat causes convulsions, insomnia, pain, hallucination, and delirium. These symptoms might last hours or months.
There are three points to consider here:
1- The effects described were identical to those expected from the known ergot contamination, no introduction of a conspiracy theory is needed to explain the event.
2- The ergot fungus is one of the key ingredients in LSD synthesis. To a non-expert outside observer, the psychoactive effects of the two are difficult to distinguish
3- MKULTRA was founded in 1953, two years AFTER the events in France.
The cool thing about conspiracy theories is that, if skilfully presented, can make the casual observer think that the evidence for them is almost undeniable. However, once each of the pieces of evidence is properly reviewed and Occam's razor is correctly applied, they invariably fall to pieces.