Doublethink
Mind control quotes

[Media favourite.  Eg Article with Gerson therapy curing "terminal" bone cancer, later article saying Gerson cure is urban myth, articles saying vitamins are dangerous, then one saying one cuts risk of cancer (see below), articles on dangers of MMR vaccine then "the only way" is MMR---just follow the "experts" who say drugs are the way, do no thinking.]

The media's goal is to "promote both sides of the issue until confusion reigns" and the individual throws up his hands in exasperation concluding that is impossible to know what is truth. Dr. Day Responds to her Critics

IF ONE CAN BE CONVINCED TO ACCEPT TWO SIMULTANEOUSLY CONTRADICTORY CONCEPTS, THE RESULT IS A CONTROLLABLE PERSON  Double Think : Marine Indoctrination That Tramples Conscience

Double Think : Marine Indoctrination That Tramples Conscience

Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them. The party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered, therefore he knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLE THINK, he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated." Orwell

You would also create great dissension among the public at large, some individuals and groups insisting that they have seen UFOs, others insisting with equal vehemence that such a thing is not possible, and that they are either liars or deluded. The Dulce Book by Branton