Lindy, allowing your mind to move too far in directions like this is a lot more dangerous to your mental health than any mind-control weapon, real or imagined.

Apply logic - simple if-then thinking. What would be true IF mind-control weapons worked? Then look around. Are these things true?

The first thing you notice is books, documents, web pages - by the thousands - all talking about these secret mind-control weapons. Descriptions, who's deploying them, and why.

Don't you think that if such devices worked, the FIRST THING they would do is eliminate the idea from the culture?

It's like making the assumption that elephants suddenly became invisible. The first thing you would notice is NO ELEPHANTS.

The common paranoid response is that the mind-control people are spreading all this information to put people "off their guard" or something. This is like all the invisible elephants painting themselves elephant-gray so nobody knows they're invisible. To a certain kind of mind, this actually qualifies as proof that elephants are invisible.

There is such a thing as having a mind that is too open. At some point, not only does everything get in, but things start to leak away.