--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > After looking at a detailed report prepared by the major > advocates of this perspective [including Singer--JS], the > American Psychological Association concluded that the idea of > brainwashing and mind control as popularly applied to the new > religious movements was scientifically unacceptable. It had been > arrived at through a sloppy metholology and poor scientific work. > > Subsequently the American Sociological Association and the > Society for the Scientific Study of Religion reached a similar > conclusion. As a result, testimony concerning brainwashing and > mind control have properly been banished from consideration by > American courts as an idea lacking any scientific credibility. >
Singer sued the APA over this and lost, BTW. But, it's nice for cult-followers to be able to blame the cult rather than themselves--whether it's the TMO that serves their needs for a cult to belong to or some other group--so they keep dragging out the "cult victim" claim and then complain that someone is "blaming the victim" when people point out that not everyone has had the same experience with the TMO that they do. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
