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Cult Apologists Conference

June 11, 2022 By Mike Rinder 17 Comments

The same, tired old band of cult apologist "academics" are holding their annual conference next week in Quebec, Canada. They are familiar names, led by Massimo Introvigne, one of the main beneficiaries of much scientology funding over the years.  We did a Fair Game podcast about these cult apologists with Chris Shelton The reason for putting "academics" in quotation marks is that they do no real research or study. They accept information provided to them by scientology, reject anything that comes from "former" members (apostates) on the basis that one of the founding apologists, Bryan … [Read more...]

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