Damn, she's a scientologist? Way to damage your credibility, girl! How can I trust what you say when you're in the same club as that guy who put footprints all over Oprah's couch?

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She can't possibly be a Scientologist. I think she was just pulling our collective leg!

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This may be a viable statement if you listened to the show for more then five minutes. She has never promoted scientology you boob! The Majority Report talks about political topics, which are relevant to the public. If you want to trash someone trash the liars in Washington who got us into a war on lies. Tell us something Er-ik. Why are we in Iraq?

I will support anyone who helps the rescue workers no matter what sky fairy they worship! Seems to be the right thing to do Er-ik wouldn’t you agree?

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I really doubt she's a scientologist; it's not like the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project advertises the connection, that's how scientologists work.

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Clearly, you've never listened to the program. She's a proud Atheist.

Sounds like she was trying to give some air time to people attempting to help those still struggling.

Chill out.

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People, let's not throw the baby with the bathwater!

You may like or dislike Scientology. That doesn't mean it's sensible to spit at everything Hubbard ever wrote, or frown on every Scientology-related initiative.

You might believe in Moroni or not. That is unrelated to the sound quality of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

You might be an anti-semite. But you'd be carrying it a bit far if you refused treatment at Jewish Memorial Hospital.

You might be an atheist. Still, not a good reason to stop using the Webster dictionary just because Webster was a Christian.

The NY Detox project (www.nydetox.org) has had a lot of positive results, and received accolades from many celebs and city officials. As any initiative, it has also received criticism from some quarters.

One would have to understand the methodology used, study the results of the program, speak to some of the program graduates etc. to have an opinion which is based on more than prejudice.

Sincerely,
Greg Churilov
and yes, I'm a Scientologist. Deal with it.

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Hey you critic's out there. What would happen if this program really did work???? Would it be so bad. Maybe someone would get some real help instead of some doctor just pushing their drugs off on them. Go buy the book and read it, the truth about it is out there in the book, not in the media who are pushing their own supressive agenda. Please, research your subject before you go and blow your silly mouths off in public and make youself look as ignorant as your comments.

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What I find so hypocritical about the criticism of the Scientology detox program is that in the US it is well know and advertised that anti-biotics, pesticides, drugs and other TOXINS remain in the tissue of animals and are ingested by humans when they are eaten, thereby adversely affect our physical and mental health.

For an "expert" to say this doesn't then lodge in the fatty tissues of human bodies is just preposterous. Any doctor or nutritionist worth his salt would find such a denial ridiculous.

These "experts" have a vested interest in NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM. Otherwise they would have gotten people well without drug dependence or having to be medicated for life. I know NO ONE who wants to be on medication for the rest of their life - but they have been told over and over and over again that this is the "only way" by experts who should know better. For those of us who actually wish to get well, we find out for ourselves what works and use it, and pass it along to others and TO HELL WITH PHARMACEUTICAL SPONSORED "EXPERTS" AND THOSE WHO WISH TO DRAIN OUR BANK ACCOUNTS THROUGH PROGRAMS THAT DON'T WORK!!!

Having personally been through the Scientology detox program I experienced the toxins I'd been subjected to tens of years ago leaving my body and unmistakably recognized them as that. I also felt the extreme relief and return of feeling, alertness and energy after getting them fully out of my system. My motor skills and reaction time had been severely impaired after three major anesthetics were administered to me during a surgery prior to the program. The detox program completely resolved this and I was able to get back into music. I also was able to kick my inhaler and have not needed it since. I can see why some doctors, drug makers and Scientology haters are TERRIFIED of this program. It threatens to ruin their credibility, and income.

This is an excellent program and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to free themselves from the unwanted mental effects of chemicals, pollutants and drugs.

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Greg Churilov is being a little disingenuous, as he tends to be all over the Internet on the subject of Scientology (don't take my word for it! Just Google on his name!) His comment that "One would have to understand the methodology used ... to have an opinion which is based on more than prejudice" neatly skips over the fact that many of the people who are expressing a poor opinion of Downtown Medical are doing so BECAUSE they understand the methodology used, and know that it has absolutely no foundation in science -- only in the unsupported assertions of L. Ron Hubbard, a man who never finished college but claimed to be a nuclear physicist, a man who claimed to have won military medals that never existed for commanding ships that never existed in squadrons that never existed, a man who claimed that his self-created heal-all formulas and techniques had cured him of all his medical woes by 1947 but who was still drawing disability pay in 1958 ... a man who claimed that his declarations about cancer being psychosomatic and massive doses of niacin being the cure for toxins were "scientifically proven", but who never presented his data (assuming it ever existed) for inspection.

Greg suggests that anyone who questions the worth of the "New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project" due to it being wholly based on the doctrines of Scientology is like an anti-Semite refusing treatment at Jewish Memorial Hospital. Well, here's why your analogy fails, Greg. Jewish Memorial Hospital is accredited by JCAHO. If I go to Jewish Memorial Hospital, I'm going to get healthcare, not Judaism. I'll get actual medical treatment, the kind that was developed through double-blind scientific testing to separate out that which ACTUALLY works from that which was merely hypothesized to work. If I go to Scientology's Downtown Medical, I'll get "treatment" which was "developed" merely by Hubbard dreaming it up and assuring people with his fingers crossed "this is scientifical fact" (or, if they were farther gone, "this is the old formula they used in the planets of the Marcab Confederacy to run out the effects of toxins".) Despite the names, if I go to Jewish Memorial Hospital, I get medical treatment; if I go to Downtown Medical, what I get is Scientology. And I think perhaps Lisa McPherson is a good example of why Scientology is not who I want to entrust my life and health to. http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/CoS/autopsy.html

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McPherson died of a blood clot in her leg that even a Doctor tried to and couldn't diagnose, so don't give me that bull.

A place to review the research done on L. Ron Hubbard's program is at http://www.narconon.org/narconon_research.htm

There are thousands upon thousands who have been through this program and vouch for its effectiveness.

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Nice try, Dragonfly. But try looking at that coroner's report again. What do you see as the cause of death? "Immediate Cause of Death: Thrombo-embolism left pulmonary artery due to: Thrombosis of left popliteal vein due to: Bed rest and severe dehydration". The idea that "a Doctor tried to and couldn't diagnose" the blood clot -- even if that were true, which it isn't -- avoids the central reality: Lisa McPherson did not die from a blood clot that her Scientology caretakers failed to diagnose but that a conventional medical doctor would have failed to diagnose too. Lisa McPherson died from a blood clot caused by the neglect of her Scientology caretakers over the 17 days that they kept her in isolation.

Oh, and as for the doctor you refer to? Well, if Scientology had actually had a doctor see Lisa McPherson, then maybe she'd be alive today. However, the only medical doctor involved at all with Lisa's treatment was David I. Minkoff, a 20-year Scientologist who lost his license for a year, for prescribing medicine for Lisa ... without ever seeing her. Claiming that "a Doctor tried to and couldn't diagnose" the blood clot leaves out the fact that very, very few blood clots can be diagnosed without ever seeing the patient.

No, I stand by my previous statement: Scientology is not who I want to trust my life and health to. They couldn't even see to it that one of their own members got such a basic medical requirement as adequate hydration. Now they want to treat New York firefighters with the Purification Rundown -- a procedure with no medical validity whatsoever, whose main component is spending hours in saunas.

Saunas cause dehydration.

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to anyone even considering paying attention to the fool trying to discredit the NY detox program: before you get blown away by the huffing and puffing of no "reason" and other hotfingers trying to blow scientology's house down, please go check out the program for yourself:
New York Rescue Workers
Detoxification Project
139 Fulton St., Suite 515
New York, NY 10038
And for the record, deyhydration could only occur if you don't drink water...*duh*! http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/145576p-128631c.html (as this picture shows, people do actually keep themselves hydrated while in the sauna.)

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I have never been to Jewish Memorial Hospital but I have done the Scientology detox program. It works. There is nothing like it. It saved my life. Get over it.

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