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Scientology Empowerment Versus Psychiatric Destruction

I can see it now—Indonesian and American physicists in a catfight over which direction an apple takes when it falls from a tree. Maybe they should vote on it.

MEDIA WATCH

Psychologists Have No Standing to Judge Religions

The basic thrust of your article is to dissuade people from religion and religious groups based on the atheistic assertions of a two clinical psychologists—members of a group notorious for their lack of understanding in religious matters.

MEDIA WATCH

The Media’s Obsession With Religion

I sincerely consider that your inherent duty, as media, is to uphold religion, faith, belief, decency and mutual respect, not seek to strike it down, trample on it and grind it into the dust—especially using discredited sources, such as the long ago disgraced hatemongers of the AFF.

MEDIA WATCH

Vice.com Headlining for Criminal Deprogrammer

I sincerely recommend that you adopt a policy of research first, write second. There are frequently at least two sides to a story. It would behoove you to get the other side(s)—or you’ll have to get very familiar with eggs.

MEDIA WATCH

Listverse “cult” story debunked

Margaret Singer based her work on what she claimed to be the results of studies into the treatment of prisoners of war during the Korean War. Anthony showed that the entire Korean brainwashing scare lacked scientific substance; it was a propaganda campaign concocted to perpetuate the anti-Communist hysteria of the McCarthy era.

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