Talk:Brain-Washing (book)

Brainwashing Manual Parallels in Modern Scientology

The bot removals seem to be general removal of any freeweb.com links. (It would be nice if the bots would reference any such list of blocked sites in their comments. Betacommand is shutoff for the moment after running wild.) AndroidCat 18:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Added a fair use rationale template. Was this book ever copyrighted (1955)? The Church of Scientology could hardly copyright a book that they attributed to someone else, could they? AndroidCat (talk) 05:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

http://whyaretheydead.net dead

Link removed for now. I've found something at http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/brainwashing1.html that I presume is this book. Anyone with definitive knowledge of it feel free to re-add. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.48.114.4 (talk) 15:23, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Article should mention that Goff's version is slightly different

He also claimed that he wrote it (probably didn't, but it's still significant). His version has an extra preface and some minor textual changes. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:52, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Generally I feel like this article is a lot more confident that Hubbard wrote it than the sources are. There are quite a few sources on the radical right that are equally confident in attributing it to Goff! PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:05, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Actually checking the sources, we are saying it far more confidently than the sources do. Bollier & George does not argue it but say that Hubbard's son did - they in fact argue we don't know! PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:18, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

"Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychological Warfare" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychological Warfare has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 March 31 § Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychological Warfare until a consensus is reached. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:41, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Article mentions "different versions" but doesn't elaborate

There are some differences in the various versions of the text in circulation.

Could someone with a more thorough knowledge of this subject expound upon these different versions within the article? As written the article mentions the fact that there are multiple different versions and then just moves on without giving any examples. Luscious duncan (talk) 18:58, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

That's what the sources say. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to elaborate any further beyond what the article says. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:49, 15 July 2026 (UTC)