You could just as easily say Marxism, Capitalism or just science were forms of mind control, and truly I have met people who genuinely believe politics or progress will "save the world".
Marxism and Capitalism are ideologies that can indeed indoctrinate people; just look at the desperately poor Americans who are die-hard supporters of less taxes for the rich. If that's not evidence of capitalist brain-washing, I don't know what is... people literally railing and voting against their own self-interest, often in the insane delusion that they too will be rich one day, and are protecting the vast wealth they don't yet have.
The thing is, people don't typically read their kids to sleep with Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged', or send their kids to 'The Communist Manifesto' camp in the summer. While people can get caught up in ideologies like Marxism and Capitalism, there's typically at least some level of conscious decision there. Religion is a little different, as it's taught and practiced rather differently. You wouldn't be ok with a woman looking after your kids telling them they're all going to be poor, homeless parasites if they don't start financially exploiting their peers, nor telling them they have to all share their lunches with each-other and demanding the rich kids mom pay for everyone else's school supplies... but many are perfectly ok with a woman looking after their kids telling those kids they'll burn in hell for all eternity if they don't stop, say, pulling Nancy's hair.
Science isn't an ideology. While science can certainly be used to discover and utilize methods of mind-control, to suggest science itself is mind-control is nonsensical. Science is just a functional process of discovery.