Madness, Pt. 5: The Unreachable Summit
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ewen Cameron wanted to win a Nobel Prize for his work in psychiatry. He never got one. He died of a heart attack while climbing a mountain in the Adirondacks in 1967. So, we don’t have access to Cameron's thoughts on his own legacy. But we do have his son, Duncan Cameron. In the final installment of “Madness," we sit down with Duncan, and we explore the shocking ways his father's methods are still being used today.
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"Madness" unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. Co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson, along with producer Josh Swartz, investigate how the stigma around mental illness, combined with government secrecy, can silence the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Land, at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:09.0 | Heads up, this is part five of Madness from Endless Thread. |
| 0:13.0 | If you haven't heard parts one through four, |
| 0:15.0 | you should definitely go listen to those first. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:20.0 | Previously on Endless Thread. |
| 0:23.0 | How did you feel when you learned that Dr. Cameron's |
| 0:26.0 | experimentation was financed by the CIA? |
| 0:29.0 | Well, I thought that bastard. |
| 0:32.0 | She wanted her day in court, she wanted a public apology. |
| 0:35.0 | That was the most important thing to her, more than the money. |
| 0:38.0 | And my Eureka moment was, here it is. |
| 0:40.0 | He actually says that he was trying to do mind control experimentation. |
| 0:45.0 | And to use whatever he had at his disposal to do this. |
| 0:49.0 | And no one seems to want to take accountability for this. |
| 0:52.0 | I think it's going to be a hard road to hoe. |
| 0:55.0 | Any words of advice for those attorneys? |
| 0:58.0 | Don't give up. |
| 1:18.0 | So what do you have in front of you here? |
| 1:20.0 | This is a picture of the whole family. |
| 1:23.0 | The whole family? |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, there's my father and my mother. |
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