The Men Who Stare at Goats: Library Edition

from ohernaes

Did the US military have a program that tried to teach soldiers how to stare animals to death? This and related questions are explored in Ronson's book about supernatural methods and the military. It is funny but does raise real questions about knowledge, on part of both the protagonists and the ...

from Niecierpek

 An entertaining and baffling read about a secret division within the US army busying itself with combat using ESP means. The men from that division stare at goats and they die. How? They just concentrate on the task, will them to die, and they do. Or perhaps, not exactly. Perhaps there are some ...

from fundevogel

This was a page turner, though I do think it should be read with a giant grain of salt, primarily because the book is almost entirely based on interviews with crazy people with little or no substantiating content or critical evaluation. Certainly a lot of this stuff probably happened, but none of...

from BruceCoulson

The Men Who... starts out much like [Them: Adventures in Extremism] in poking fun at a certain small group of military planners who (partially) embraced a whole slew of New Age concepts in an effort to re-vitalize the armed services post Vietnam. But the story takes some very dark turns, linking ...

from Kanikoski

The premise for this journalistic read almost promises to lead to a place of humour: crack army dudes unsuccessfully staring at goats to try to make them drop dead. However, the narrative leads to altogether darker places. The 'Psychic Ops' described meander into stories associated with Abu Ghrai...