Parasites and Mind Tricks: A Story of Seduction, Gaslighting, and Poisons

How metaphorical parasites put victims in a mental stupor.

I was recently very moved by a presentation by Dr. Tau Braun in which he talked, among other things, about biological mechanisms of poisons. I was struck by his point about how poison takes over the biological resources of the victim to harm or kill the victim—while the poisonous animal, who has already invested into producing the poison and biting the …