Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

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.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

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

I much prefer the modern world.

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