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The home of a paper of record and a website of crap. The New York Times kindled a love of science in me at an early age. My parents, at the time, were trying to get me to a place where I would actually read the paper. I was more of a comic books and… [...] What stress readings do you think the Haitians might have? (photo from Flickr by David Sifry) We all know of the epic horror in Haiti, I wrote a really over done and way too much piece about it last week, but today I’m here to tell you that help is being brought to Haiti. Some [...] Photo by swthmal08 via Photobucket Last Saturday, the New York City Skeptics hosted a lecture called, Cults and Coercion: How Ordinary People are Turned into Extraordinary Fanatics at the New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Branch. The lecturer was Paul Grosswald, a former Scientologist who left the infamous cult 20 years ago. I’ve been writing for various internet publications now for going on two years. It’s not a long time to a lot of people, but for me, it feels like a while. It started out easy. Like with all writing. There’s that early work you do where you had like five or six things to say [...] Join us at the NYC Skeptic’s August public lecture: Paul Grosswald – Cults and Coercion: How Ordinary People are Turned into Extraordinary Fanatics When: Saturday August 15th @ 1:00PM Where: New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Branch – 425 Avenue of the Americas @ 10th St. Note: At one point in time, this article was in fact topical. Roger Friedman used to be a freelance entertainment writer for NewsCorp. That was before he got fired in April. Now, Friedman is claiming that his firing was due to the actions of The “Church” of Scientology, and is trying to make a case for [...] |
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