Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.