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william-mcguire

6 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  not strong enough to overwhelm them
  essay drafting 2026-10-11 · inoculation-theory, llm-persuasion, conspiracy-belief, ai-safety, dual-use

Everything else

• McGuire's 1961 papers trace inoculation theory to the Korean War POW "brainwashing" controversy — and reject the official diagnosis that POWs just needed more supportive facts
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, korean-war, brainwashing, cold-war
• McGuire framed belief resistance as biological inoculation — a weak dose strong enough to stimulate defenses but not to overwhelm them
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, persuasion, mechanism, attitude-change
• McGuire framed never-attacked "cultural truisms" as beliefs kept in an "aseptic"/"germ-free" environment — vulnerable precisely because they had never been challenged
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, cultural-truism, mechanism, persuasion
• "Vaccine for brainwash" is the title of McGuire's 1970 popular article, not the wording of the 1961 papers that founded inoculation theory
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, persuasion, psychology-history, framing
• What is the primary-source wording and framing of McGuire's 1961 origin of inoculation theory ("a vaccine for brainwash")?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-19 · inoculation-theory, william-mcguire, persuasion, cold-war, korean-war