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Sep 28, 2022, 9:56 PM

The Rest of the Truth Behind the Havana Syndrome

Havana Syndrome has not been in the news much lately. That changed a bit on Sunday, September 25, 2022, when CNN broadcast a “documentary” by Dr. Sanjay Gupta titled, “Immaculate Concussion: The Truth Behind Havana Syndrome”. CNN has been...

Mar 12, 2022, 8:21 PM

Why no “Havana syndrome” weapon in Ukraine?

The tragedy unfolding in Ukraine has horrified much of the world, just as Ukraine’s resistance to Russian aggression has inspired the world. Black-and-white scenes of destruction, dislocation, and suffering from a lifetime ago in Europe now appear in high...

Jan 22, 2022, 8:50 PM

Is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum helping promote a Communist lie?

US General Dwight Eisenhower and General Troy Middleton tour the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp, a German forced labor and concentration camp that was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network. (PD / William Newhouse)

The myth of 'self-liberation' was concocted to give Buchenwald prisoners a heroic role in liberating the camp, casting American soldiers as mere spectators

Sep 29, 2021, 8:12 AM

Following the Science…Wherever It Leads

Appeals to the authority of science have become fashionable in discussions of public policy issues. Debates over climate or public health now often include injunctions to “follow the science”. “Following the science” turns out to be immensely complicated, requiring...

Aug 4, 2021, 10:39 PM

Questionable testimony in Holocaust doc is grist for deniers

Irene Zisblatt in ‘The Last Days’ (Screenshot from YouTube)

The award-winning documentary ‘The Last Days’ was rereleased but there are serious doubts about the veracity of the recollections of a survivor featured in the film

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George Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist, Professor Emeritus at the United States Air Force Academy. He currently teaches in the M.P.S. Psychology of Leadership program in the World Campus at the Pennsylvania State University. His recent books include Of Mind and Murder: Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the Holocaust; Misremembering the Holocaust: The Liberation of Buchenwald and the Limits of Memory; and Rumors of Injustice: The Cases of Ilse Koch and Rudolph Spanner. Visit his website www.georgemastroianni.com.

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