A Speccie reader has asked if it is linguistically permissible to label the tactics of climate catastrophists as ‘brainwashing.’ The expression is first recorded in English in 1950 and is an American translation of a Chinese phrase. An early example of its use is Ed Hunter’s 1951 book Brain Washing in Red China.
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