There were 149 subprojects in MKULTRA and we have internal descriptions of 146 of them apparently

Ohh nice I'll have to check it out. So far my favorite skeptical biography of him is Dan Vogel's 2 books on him (he is writing a trilogy covering his whole life but has only come out with 2 so far)

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Actually lol I forgot that ancient israelite religion is a direct descendant of ancient cannanite religion so ignore the ancient cannanite religion box (you can just include it with west semitic mythology)

I always close my curtains because I don't want to be hit by UVA rays which can pass through glass unlike UVB rays

He thinks that the Syriac translation can be used to reconstruct the original Greek wording better than the Latin one for various reasons but they both agree on the meaning of the phrase.

Yes but it's not speculation he shows that ancient Latin (translated by Saint Jerome no less) and Syriac translations of Josephus have this phrase in them. Also Origin of Alexandria explicitly says that Josephus did not think Jesus was the Christ.

I have to say I think I am being convinced lol

You can read the book for free if you click the PDF option here
academic.oup.com/book/60034

Ok this is what he says about the "if one can indeed call him a man" passage

If this translation is accurate I think I can buy this except for the "if indeed one ought to call him a man" thing. But he has a whole section on that explaining what that would mean from a non Christian perspective but I haven't read it.