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The idea of clowns in hospitals for therapeutic reasons was immortalised in the movie Patch Adams starring comedian Robin Williams. However, researchers at Israel’s Haifa University are taking it a step further and introducing the methodology into the medical arena for real. Beginning in 2006 the world’s first official medical clowning program began through Haifa […]

The ruthless actions the Church of Scientology takes towards its detractors is well known. However, this focus is often on the high profile court cases against large organisations, or the more personal tell-all accounts of former celebrity members. We rarely hear about the average man in the street and their experiences after falling on the […]

When life’s stresses take their toll, some of us like to put in an extra workout, or go for a hard run. In Russia, some like to smash up a room with a sledgehammer. And we happen to think it’s a great idea. This new stress busting trend allows people to pay to enter a […]

On March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times. She bled to death in her own home. Jeremy was under the care of the Church of Scientology at the time. He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia a number of years before the incident, however Elli Perkins (a senior […]

Since the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1952 the organization has strongly opposed established mental health care practices and the fields of psychiatry and psychology. To this day, Scientologists abhor mainstream psychiatry and view it as a barbaric and corrupt profession. Scientology members are denied access to psychiatric care and medication, and instead are […]