[Note: Nothing in this article discloses how all the pricey lawyers and experts are paid to defend this cult leader. Lawyers like Alan Dershiwitz don't work for free. And the experts must have cost a pretty penny. Does sex cult…[Continue Reading...]
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank bank said its investigations have discovered 21 companies that were operating pyramid schemes. Pyramid schemes also known as multi-level marketing and direct selling are recruitment programs where one member recruits a number of others…[Continue Reading...]
An advert promoting the controversial Scientology religion at a London Tube station has caused shock and disbelief among commuters. The poster, which encourages Londoners to find out more about the group, was spotted over the weekend at a Tube platform.…[Continue Reading...]
A little more than two weeks ago, I clicked on the website of self-help guru James Arthur Ray and saw that tickets to his next “Harmonic Wealth” weekend, planned for April 12-13, were being heavily discounted for a price of…[Continue Reading...]
Gloriavale’s leader has made a public apology for any “pain and suffering” experienced by its members. He offered thanks to all members who have reported abuse to New Zealand’s authorities - acknowledging previous leaders breached their trust and did not…[Continue Reading...]
A new sect, “ACHAD Life Mission International” reportedly linked to human trafficking and child separation has emerged in North West, Nigeria. The sect, according to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has its headquarters in Kaduna, while its leader simply identified…[Continue Reading...]
A renewed war between some cultists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has resulted in the death of a person. The cultists had suspended their violent clashes for almost a year, but they resumed on Friday. Sunday PUNCH gathered that commercial activities…[Continue Reading...]
Another former Jehovah’s Witnesses member has been convicted of sexually assaulting a child after a statewide investigation charged multiple members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith with abusing children, some for over a decade. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office says Shaun…[Continue Reading...]
LA wildfire keeps growing, and so do the conspiracy theories, hate, and misinformation. Social media, especially X and TikTok, has become a toxic pool of conspiracy theories and hate campaigns against some communities. Studies suggest that social media algorithms have…[Continue Reading...]
This post is part two of a two-part series. The previous post in this series examined the Adaptive Conspiracism Hypothesis (Van Prooijen and Van Vugt, 2018). According to this perspective, the tendency to engage in conspiracy thinking is innate in…[Continue Reading...]
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