{"id":173,"date":"2005-06-25T00:36:24","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the_man_who_tak\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T00:36:24","slug":"the_man_who_tak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/mind-brain\/the_man_who_tak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Takes the Science out of Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=450,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/cruise_lauer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/cruise_lauer.jpg\" title=\"Cruise_lauer\" alt=\"Cruise_lauer\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>For years I&#8217;ve had a recurring dream in which, outlandish as it sounds, Matt Lauer and Tom Cruise debate the finer points of neuropharmacology on national television. Crazy stuff, fodder for a Spielberg movie, I know. But today my odd dreams retroactively became premonitions.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, there are a few differences. Replace &quot;finer points&quot; with &quot;coarser points.&quot; Replace Cruise in a flight suit with Cruise in a creepy stupor, sporting bags under his eyes and a cult-addled stare. And replace Lauer dressed as a court jester with Lauer as my new Hero. [Also, remove the weird sex stuff.] There you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8343367\/\" target=\"_blank\">what transpired this morning on &quot;Today.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2121391\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientologists notoriously hate psychiatry.<\/a> Lauer breaches the topic and eggs Cruise on, revealing Cruise to be pedantic, myopic, and apparently illiterate. I&#8217;m still not sure how a man who says &quot;you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, okay?&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done&quot; in the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8343367\/print\/1\/displaymode\/1098\/\" target=\"_blank\">conversation<\/a> as &quot;there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance&quot; can figure out which tube is for food and which tube is for air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve had a recurring dream in which, outlandish as it sounds, Matt Lauer and Tom Cruise debate the finer points of neuropharmacology on national television. Crazy stuff, fodder for a Spielberg movie, I know. But today my odd dreams retroactively became premonitions. Okay, there are a few differences. Replace &quot;finer points&quot; with &quot;coarser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,34,48,40,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-mind-brain","category-religion","category-science","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}