Skeptoid #373: The Secrets of MKULTRA

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2013

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth.

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0:00.0	Mk Ultra is one of the favorite secret government programs of the conspiracy theory crowd.
0:09.7	Since it was real, something just like it could happen again, couldn't it?
0:14.2	Mk Ultra was in fact quite real, where the government gave LSD to people without their
0:19.3	knowledge and did a lot of other things.
0:21.6	But the way it happened probably isn't quite the way the conspiracy theorists think.
0:28.2	Mk Ultra are coming right up, unskeptoid.
0:37.6	Hey everyone, Brian here.
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1:20.2	You're listening to Skeptoid.
1:21.5	I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.
1:24.7	The Secrets of Mk Ultra.
1:27.8	It's one of the most ominous terms in the history of modern governments and intelligence,
1:33.0	nearly on a par with the names of Joseph Mingola and Paul Pot.
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