This is a personal rebuttal to some websites I’ve seen from apostates recently that denigrated my religion with regard to raising children in Scientology. Here’s how I see this issue:

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My parents divorced when I was an infant, back in 1953. I grew up in a series of broken homes, attended 17 schools before graduating high school in 1970, and had 3 stepmoms and 7 step-dads at various times, as well as foster parents. I can remember living in 52 different houses in 6 states as a child. My parents were alcoholics, whose lives spun out of control in …

Over 50 years ago, the United Nations signed into law the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” and has been busily ignoring those rights ever since. God only knows how many millions of people have been massacred in China since the end of WW II, and how many people Stalin killed in his gulags and by purposefully starving entire populations. The 20th century may have seen more people murdered after WWII, killed by their own governments, than in both the World Wars and in the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, all put together.

Composer Neal Fox has created a Human Rights …

Little Cheyenne Delp was first taken by her foster mother (Sherri Mathis) to see a psychiatrist at 5 years of age. She left with prescriptions for three psych drugs for the child. By the time Cheyenne died a year later, apparently strangled to death by her foster mother in 2004, her psychiatrist had her taking *four* psych drugs.

Cheyenne’s foster mother is on trial for murder. Shouldn’t her psychiatrist also be on trial right along with her? That would be Dr. Saran Mudumbi, shown here testifying about how he kept changing around her drug cocktail, increasing the dosages for because for …

Antidepressants Hardly Help according to an article in Time Magazine. I rarely trust any information provided by what is usually the central mouthpiece for Big Pharma, and the trumpet of the AMA and APA, but in this case they seem to have let some actual science slip through in their reporting. Prozac, Effexor, Serzone, Paxil and Seroxat, the SSRI drugs, are basically about as effective as a placebo sugar pill for all except the most severely depressed. So why have 50 million people been taking these drugs worldwide? Because they drug companies only provide the POSITIVE results of their drug trials …

The manufacturers of Risperdal and Seroquel, widely-prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, have been sued by the Montana Attorney General for injury or deaths of Montanans.

I hope more state Attorneys General will get on this particular band-wagon. These drug companies have very deep pockets (billions of dollars of profits per year) and are using extremely aggressive marketing campaigns to get doctors to prescribe these drugs off-label, for things that they were never approved to do by the FDA. The pseudo-science of psychiatry is in bed with Big Pharma on this, and are guilty of pushing the whole “bad brain chemistry” myth, for which …

Published in Variety Magazine:

Posted: Mon., Feb. 11, 2008, 2:00pm PT

Scientology should be met with tolerance

Letter to the editor
By BERTRAM FIELDS
Dear Peter, I was disappointed by your recent column on Scientology and Tom Cruise. You say some things that are surprising coming from a man of your intelligence and education. You seem to recognize that, in America, we are all supposed to be free to practice — and even preach — the religion of our choice. Then, you appear to deny this fundamental right to Scientologists because of “their beliefs and protocols.” You add “To be a …

Anonymous is in the news again today for setting up demonstrations outside various Churches of Scientology.

Here’s a video from a year ago, from Fox News, showing what the group Anonymous is really about. They haven’t been just cyber-terrorists for some time, they are actual terrorists and the Church of Scientology is just their latest target. Hopefully these demonstrations will remain peaceful — it’s a given that the Scientologists won’t provoke them — they won’t even be talking to them in most cases.

The Federalist (a great newsletter for those interested in preserving and protecting the Constitution of the USA), published this posting today on bets being placed on the Global Warming scam by scientists who are not media sycophants from the gloom and doom school:

FRONTIERS OF JUNK SCIENCE: GLOBAL WARMING SNOW JOB MELTING?

According to a recent National Center for Policy Analysis report, last year’s declaration of impending doom from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the form of its Fourth Assessment Report was based on opinion instead of science. As hard data continues to emerge, global warming becomes increasingly difficult …

The venerable “The Way to Happiness” Foundation has come out with some new videos illustrating each of the 21 precepts contained in their common sense moral code. That’s the non-religious moral code that is used to teach prisoners and druggies around the world a moral code, in the highly effective Criminon criminal rehabilitation and Narconon drug rehabilitation programs.

The first of the Way to Happiness videos are here.

My old friend Stan Dubin has a new blog about helping marriages succeed. I’ve added it to my blogroll but I thought it deserved its own post here as well. Stan is a long-time Scientologist and the author of “When the Thrill is Gone” Congrats, Stan, on the new blog, and good luck!