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.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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

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.

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

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

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