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284. Why Scientology's Brain Washing Is So Effective: Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack

Ex-Scientologist Jon Atack is back to discuss how he fell into Scientology, how he got out, and what is so dangerous about its form of brain-washing. We talk about everything from Tom Cruise and David Miscavige to L. Ron Hubbard's teeth and the cultish elements of the CoS.

Jon Atack Links:
https://www.youtube.com/@jonatackfamilyfriends6176
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piece-Blue-Sky-Scientology-Dianetics/dp/081840499X

Andrew Gold links:
http://youtube.com/andrewgold1
http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok
http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok
https://www.patreon.com/andrewgold
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What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants.

Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Francis Foster and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to ex-Hasidic Jew Julia Haart and gender critical atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.