Category:Gaslighting
Gaslighting means manipulating someone into doubting their own memory, perception or sanity. On Bullshitopedia, cases are tagged with gaslighting when people in power, or people with something to hide, told the public, victims or witnesses that what they saw, knew or lived through was not real.
The word comes from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light and its film versions, especially George Cukor's 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband dims the gas lamps of their London home and insists his wife is imagining it, to make her believe she is going mad. Read the full case file: where the word gaslighting comes from.
Related: Gaslighting is a clinical diagnosis · Any lie or disagreement is gaslighting
The cases below are examples of gaslighting by governments, companies, institutions and individuals.
Pages in category "Gaslighting"
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- Thalidomide was completely safe, even during pregnancy
- The 2018 Douma chemical attack was staged
- The Bloody Sunday victims were armed
- The Boston Marathon bombing was staged with crisis actors
- The Bucha massacre was staged
- The Central Park Five were guilty because they confessed
- The Deepwater Horizon spill was leaking 5,000 barrels a day
- The Diary of Anne Frank is a forgery
- The Irish state had no role in the Magdalene laundries
- The Manchester Arena bombing was staged
- The men in the Tuskegee study were being treated for "bad blood"
- The Post Office's Horizon system was robust
- The Račak massacre in Kosovo was staged
- The Sandy Hook shooting was staged with crisis actors
- The Srebrenica massacre was not genocide
- The Wehrmacht fought a clean war
- The White House had no involvement in Watergate
- The word gaslighting comes from the 1944 Ingrid Bergman film
- Theranos could run hundreds of tests from a finger-prick of blood
- There are no American troops in Baghdad
- There is no proof that smoking causes cancer
- There was no famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–33
- Trump's inauguration drew the largest crowd ever