Ethics

The Men Who Stare At Goats

By Adam Kolber

Here's an excerpt from a post at BoingBoing about a film that's been greenlighted and likely to have some modest influence on pop culture.  This sounds quite wacky, and many of the underlying claims are (admittedly?) dubious:

The Men Who Stare At Goats is a must-read 2005 book by UK journalist Jon Ronson about the US government's interest in very strange stuff, like Jedi powers, psychic spying, subliminal sound weapons, and the potential to kill something (like a goat, or an enemy soldier) just by looking at it. Fact or fiction, or most likely some of both, it's an absolute blast to read. (And Ronson's BBC documentary based on the book, Crazy Rulers of the World, is a lot of fun too! You can find it here on Google Video.) Yesterday, it was announced that Grant Heslov will direct a feature film based on The Men Who Stare At Goats.

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).