“This is an invaluable book for anyone who has ever wondered why, in recent years, we’ve constantly lurched from one ‘crisis’ to the next, and how all of these ‘crises’ are related. With vivid and gripping detail, Mind Viruses reveals how the American republic has been divided by a contagion of irrational ideas and fervently held false beliefs. As a medical doctor, I found the chapters on the COVID-19 vaccines and transgender medicine especially illustrative of how science can be hijacked by special interests promoting deranged thought. A must-read for all concerned citizens who wish to restore sanity to our public forum.”
—Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
“Mind Viruses is a compelling diagnosis of what has weakened the West, and what we need to do to get our social and political health back. While our medical profession constantly proclaims the need to vaccinate our bodies against infectious diseases, 'We the People,' and especially our children, are left defenseless against the mental contagions that have proliferated in recent years. Mind Viruses reveals with anatomical precision how we are constantly being manipulated, and how to protect our minds from the contrived social scourges and cultural plagues of our era. A compelling read that brings to mind the old African proverb, ‘If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.’”
—Ryan N. Cole, MD
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America's decline from Cold War victor to “a house divided against itself” is not the result of external threats, but of irrational beliefs that spread like contagions, sickening “We the People” while enriching special interests that profit from fear and division.
In 1957, the Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, warned about “subversive minorities” in the West who are animated by “chimerical wish fantasies” that may rapidly spread and develop into “psychic epidemics.”
In 1984, the KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, warned of the danger of “ideological subversion,” which he defined as “changing the perception of reality to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their communities, and their country.”
In recent years, the American public forum has been afflicted with a host of irrational ideas that possess the minds of believers, distorting their perceptions and rendering them unable to think about complex problems. Instead of calm discussion, they are given to emotional outbursts and violent behavior. Critical thinking is replaced by mindless slogans and extreme, either-or propositions.
During the pandemic, the COVID-19 vaccine was idolized as the liberator and savior of mankind, despite its failure to prevent infection. Similar “faith communities” have coalesced around the issues of racism, transgender medicine, Ukrainian nationalism, and climate change.
Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions examines the people, events, and interests that have produced these mental contagions that imperil our constitutional republic.