 In a review of the book for The Daily Telegraph , British doctor and science writer James Le Fanu was critical , and commented that Taylor did not acknowledge " the explanatory gap " between current understanding of the brain 's structure and " what it does , how we think , feel and emote " . Le Fanu concluded , " The paradox of Brainwashing is that it would have been a much more interesting book if Dr Taylor had pursued the contrarian view of seeking to explain why that ' explanatory gap ' is not merely unbridged but , with the advance of the neurosciences , now seems to be unbridgeable . A brain that was simple enough to be fully known would be too simple to contain conscious observers who might know it . " Nigel Hawkes of The Times criticized what he saw as Taylor 's conclusion that " we are all a little bit brainwashed by our culture and experience " and noted that this assessment places Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple group in the same classification as the tabloid press . A review in Financial Times by Jerome Burne was also critical , and he commented that Taylor does not convey " a clear enough message " in the work . 
