Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case.
Watch Rinder try to throw a Twitter user off his trail by employing the Scientology tactic of a “No-Answer”. Do you think it worked?
Scientology isn’t the only group to go after their critics: Leah Remini’s Scientology & the Aftermath goes after their critics just as dishonestly
‘Cults’ only exist in terms of the mainstream society or culture around it. “Cults” are simply minorities within that mainstream context.
I called “Ted the Tour Guy” of Cult City Tours last weekend because I had a great idea for a stop on his tour of Scientology’s hotspots in downtown Clearwater: It’s the apartment where Kyle … Read more
Mike Rinder intervenes to keep Danny Masterson Rape Accuser Chrissie Bixler from finding out about what Rinder did as CO OSA when she was coming forward with her accusations in 2002/2003.
Adopting the beliefs of the anti-cult movement dramatically changes the views and attitudes of those who experience a loss of faith. Those changes have a profound effect on how Exes make sense of their own past. So we must ask: How helpful is the ideology of the anti cult movement in making sense of your life?
Steven Mango details his experience getting Scientology auditing from Karen de la Carriere, her attempts to get more & more money out of him, steering him away from actual mental health counseling at one of the lowest, most suicidal points in his life circa 2017.
Robert Vaughn Young preceded Rinder as the head of Dirty Tricks. He left Scientology in the 90’s and contributed some of the best critical writing on Scientology. He died of cancer in 2003.
Tony Ortega Says witness knew she was talking to a reporter – she even sent him a picture – but he doesn’t want to contradict the story of a rape victim.
Aaron Smith-Levin’s problems with Tony Ortega ‘run long, and they run deep’. He lays out exactly why the tribalist Tony Ortega can not be trusted.
After 16 years in a cult, 15 years in an Anticult, and 9 years out of both, I know what it means to recover from a cult.
Last night’s episode of Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath was a round table discussion of former Scientologists, and independent Scientologists, exposing the upper levels of Scientology so that people can make more informed decisions … Read more
I recorded my thoughts on the treatment I observed Aaron Smith-Levin getting from his Anti-Scientologist friends. From the ideologue Chris Shelton, to Tony Ortega’s demagoguery, to Leah Remini’s need to create a moral panic around Scientology – can Aaron’s intellectual honesty survive?
Mike Rinder & Leah Remini pretend to answer the tough questions about Scientology on their Fair Game Podcast. Here are the questions they will never allow.