Comments on: Recent Podcasts with Jon Atack https://www.mikerindersblog.org/recent-podcasts-with-jon-atack/ Something Can Be Done About It Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:11:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Cat W. https://www.mikerindersblog.org/recent-podcasts-with-jon-atack/#comment-374104 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:11:35 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2588275#comment-374104 Mike, thanks so much for doing the truth & certainty interview. You guys answered several questions I’ve had for years, one of which I eventually gave up asking because people kept getting pissed off at me just for asking. That one was regarding Gerry Armstrong’s complaints, because I think he gave a lot to and suffered a lot for the movement against Scientology’s abuses yet seems to be to some extent shunned by a big chunk of that movement. I know that’s at least partly because he’s made accusations that may not be fair, but I wanted to give him fair consideration and therefore needed more info. So your response about your attitude going into the FBI interviews (and there not being some remaining cache of info that you didn’t share in those interviews) was really important to me. Thanks for that.

The other points that were really interesting to me were about the e-meter, especially how it works and how, if it doesn’t work, people can fake their FNs and so forth. I’m still puzzled if, as Jon says, 50% of the “reads” are generated by the machine itself, how “thinking of ice cream” sorts of strategies can ever work. (50% is really bad odds at getting through long series of questions in an interrogation.) Maybe the lie detector aspect can be manipulated before the error mechanisms kick in? As you said, the e-meter is something unique to Scientology that keeps so many of its members in the cult. It would be good to really understand what’s going on there.

]]> By: Rip Van Winkle https://www.mikerindersblog.org/recent-podcasts-with-jon-atack/#comment-374062 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:07:50 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2588275#comment-374062 In reply to Mary Kahn.

yes.

These interviews are treasure

]]> By: Mary Kahn https://www.mikerindersblog.org/recent-podcasts-with-jon-atack/#comment-373799 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:24:30 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2588275#comment-373799 Really good! Jon really is a wealth of information.

Interesting take on why several of the first Clears were gay.

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