People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

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

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.