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

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

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

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

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

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.