Tom Cruise Raises $1.2M for WTC Workers

[Blondin]

Sounds pretty good at first.

Tom Cruise Raises $1.2M for WTC Workers (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=1&u=/ap/20040415/ap_en_mo/people_tom_cruise)

The project's program consists of a medically monitored regimen of exercise, sauna sweat-out, vitamins and minerals to help rescue workers cleanse their bodies of toxic residues. It was developed by L. Ron Hubbard (news), founder of the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a member.

Does the treatment include a E-meter reading?

[subgenius]

Originally posted by Blondin
Sounds pretty good at first.

Tom Cruise Raises $1.2M for WTC Workers (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=1&u=/ap/20040415/ap_en_mo/people_tom_cruise)



Does the treatment include a E-meter reading?
E-ventually.

[HarryKeogh]

my brother did the Scientology Purification Rundown about 11 years ago. Along with detoxifying his body of drugs and alcohol he also sweated out "skin cancer".

frickin amazing!

[c0rbin]

How sweaty was Jim Belushi before he checked out?

[epepke]

Originally posted by Blondin
Sounds pretty good at first.

Tom Cruise Raises $1.2M for WTC Workers (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=1&u=/ap/20040415/ap_en_mo/people_tom_cruise)

Does the treatment include a E-meter reading?

When I went up there a couple of weeks to volunteer, I saw more Scientologist ministers (clearly identified by laminated nametags tied by yarn around their necks) crossing back and forth than any other civilian group.

[Marc]

The Purification Rundown is a medically unsound, even dangerous treatment.

It involves overdoseing on vitamins, mostly Niacin I believe. Exercixing, usually running, to the point of exhaustion. And then getting into a sauna, already with the temperature set too high, and staying in for as long as you can. Can you say dehydration and heat stroke?

The overdose in vitamins usually creates teporary discolorations in the skin. You are told this is radiation damage from old sunburns being run out of your body. This treatement used to be claimed to be able to remove the effects of radiation from the body, as radiation stays in the body. :rr: But in an effort to avoid fraud suits the official Hubbard texts were changed to "Spiritual" damage from radiation.

This is just a big fundraiser for Co$, and a way to try and bring some firefighters into the cult. nothing more

[subgenius]

What a fraud, and a dangerous one. I hope Mr. Randi comments on it.
Would you like to see the books on the $1.2M they raised for themselves?
Utter dangerous quackery designed solely for $cientology PR.

[Blondin]

I guess that's what you get when you get your medical advice from a (dead) second-rate, sci-fi author.

[Ipecac]

Another stupid thing is that if this were really a huge help to suffering rescue workers, raising $1.2 million to double the number of those helped so far, from 200 to 400, then Cruise is a wanker. He could easily pay out of his own pocket change to "detoxify" as many workers as need it.