Maybe the greatest conspiracy of all was turning The Men Who Stare at Goats into another middlebrow Hollywood action flick – complete with a saccharine ending.
In a 2004 hilarious and mind-bending book, British journalist Jon Ronson recounts his efforts to uncover a loose network of military investigators with truly wacky ideas – from psychic spies to acoustic weaponeers to commandos who believed that they could stop animal hearts just by concentrating hard enough. But that book, The Men Who S....

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