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Donald Prothero reviews an explosive new documentary film about the controversial Church of Scientology.
On the heels of Sunday’s HBO documentary film by Alex Gibney, Going Clear, in this week’s eSkeptic we present an article by Dr. Michael Shermer from Skeptic magazine 17.1 on the cult-like nature of Scientology.
In this week’s eSkeptic, Swoopy’s back for a special episode of Skepticality and Karen Stollznow’s back for a special episode of MonsterTalk.
In this eSkeptic, Michael Shermer announces his lecture schedule for Illinois and Wisconsin for April 2011.
In this week’s eSkeptic, we present Michael Shermer’s Los Angeles Times opinion editorial on Scientology, followed by several Letters to the Editor that ran in response. And then, we present, in part, Jean E. Rosenfeld’s Los Angeles Times op-ed rebuttal to Michael’s piece.
In this week’s eSkeptic, Lee Traynor participates in an exorcism and lives to tell the tale.