Tom Cruise Hawks Fake Fire Cure

[Elvira]

Dec. 14/05

New York Post

CRUISE HAWKS FAKE FIRE CURE

TOM Cruise will make a rare personal appearance tonight at the Tribeca Rooftop to raise money for a controversial Church of Scientology program that claims to be healing firefighters and rescue workers who breathed toxic smoke on 9/11.
Cruise is a co-founder of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, and declares, "More than 500 individuals have recovered health and job fitness through this project — but for thousands more, the passage of time is only bringing more suffering. The strain on their lives, their families and their careers is tremendous."

Tickets starting at $6,250 get you face time and a picture with Cruise, plus dinner and dancing to the Alex Donner Orchestra. No word on whether pregnant Katie Holmes will be by his side. "It will be a night you will never forget," a mailing from Cruise promises.

However, doctors say the "purification rundown" dreamed up by science fiction writer and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is worthless quackery consisting of sauna sweating, ingestion of cooking oil and large doses of niacin.

And the program could even be harmful, because Cruise and company advise everyone to stop taking their prescription medications or using inhalers, just as he criticized Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants to relieve her postpartum depression.

"If our doctors are prescribing medication, and they are saying 'don't take it,' that's a problem for us," Deputy Fire Commissioner Frank Gribbon told PAGE SIX.

Gribbon said Dr. David Prezant, the department's deputy chief medical officer, withdrew support for the Scientologist treatment because "he is not pleased when patients are advised to disobey doctors' orders. That's where he drew the line."

Rick Ross, who covers Scientology on his cultnews.com Web site, said, "Science has proven there is no basis for Hubbard's purification rundown. It simply doesn't work. But it's not about what can be proven, it's about what Tom Cruise believes."

The Scientologists opened a clinic near the World Trade Center site and gave it an official-sounding name, Downtown Medical. But Ross said, "They used the firemen like so many props. They treat the firemen for free and charge other people $5,200."

[A*O]

I KNOW the history of smoke inhalation you jerk!

[SVZ]

what in the world?

[SVZ]

Outspoken actor TOM CRUISE has been criticised by firefighters suffering the effects of smoke inhalation from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks (11SEP01) for his controversial views on their treatment.

The Scientology devotee has urged emergency services victims to give up their medication and inhalers as part of a 'purification rundown' which favours sauna sessions, ingestion of cooking oil and large doses of niacin as cures instead.

As co-founder of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, Cruise has also supported a new Scientology clinic preaching these remedies near the Ground Zero site.

But the unorthodox therapy has been slammed as ridiculous and potentially harmful by members of the medical profession, as well as sufferers themselves.

Deputy Fire Commissioner FRANK GRIBBON tells gossip site PageSix.com, "If our doctors are prescribing medication, and they (Scientologists) are saying 'don't take it', that's a problem for us."

He adds that the department's deputy chief medical officer Dr DAVID PREZANT has supported criticism of the wacky treatment, saying, "He (Prezant) is not pleased when patients are advised to disobey doctors' orders. That's where he drew the line."

Cruise, however, has defended the venture, claiming, "More than 500 individuals have recovered health and job fitness through this project."

Tonight (14DEC05) he will make a rare personal appearance at a fundraising dinner in New York City for the charity effort.

14/12/2005 09:43

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[darksithbunny]

Man, would someone put this nut back in the bin?

[slurikaine]

Just Go Away Already Freak!

[dexter7]

he has taken another step towards insanity. publicly endorsing a treatment that is whack. i wish he would just shut up.

[sweetrebel]

I wonder if this idiot really doesn't realize how stupid he sounds? How can you say and do all the stupid things he is doing, and not expect anyone to react? Has he really been this crazy all along and no one realized it? Surely not...surely it would've surfaced by now, don't ya think?

[provence]

Who are the idiots actually going to this thing? And the only way it "will be a night you will never forget" is if Cruise takes an "accidental" dive of that Tribeca Rooftop. That's the only actual charitable "event" that could possible take place.

[FierceKiten]

On a roof,huh? Free opportunity to do the deed.

[Teceth]

This is SUCH bullshit. I went through the "Purification Rundown" when I was in Narconon for alcohol rehab (for those that don't know, Narconon is a Scientology-recruitment front), and not only is it useless, it's medically dangerous. Also, I was in rehab shortly after 9/11, and while I was there I would hear people talk about the scam that was being run on the firefighters, policemen, etc, that were affected by 9/11. I can't believe it's still going on years later, but trust the Scientologists to feel no shame at exploiting the situation for as long as they possibly can. Tom Cruise just needs to shit himself to death and STFU.

[A*O]

I truly think that Tom's immersion in Scientology and its bullshit has made him go slightly mad. Seriously. If you get so deeply sucked into an organisation whose whole existance relies on control, brainwashing and other psychological tricks to make people part with their money (because that's what Scientology is all about) then it's bound to affect you sooner or later. That's why poor Katie doesn't stand a chance.

If you read any Scientology website and see all the stuff about aliens, E-meters, psychological auditing, etc it just beggars belief that anyone with an IQ higher than their shoesize would ever be taken in. But evidently they are. I suppose you could argue that any 'religion' is based on equally 'ridiculous' beliefs (life after death, reincarnation, etc) but Scientology seems to target people for their money more than anything else. As my old granny used to say, a fool and his money are easily parted.

[FierceKiten]

This crap even reached Victoria Beckham, nuff said

[A*O]

Vic Beckham is the perfect Scientology recruit - famous, dumb and rich. I guarantee they zoomed in on her when they heard about the medical problems one of her kids is having (seizures) and have told her that it's all because of bad thetan juju and Xenu will be able to cure him, at a price. Another dumb, rich Scientologist is Jamie Packer, son and heir of Australia's most wealthy and powerful man, media baron Kerry Packer.

[cheray]

Originally Posted by provence

Who are the idiots actually going to this thing? And the only way it "will be a night you will never forget" is if Cruise takes an "accidental" dive of that Tribeca Rooftop. That's the only actual charitable "event" that could possible take place.

But I would even pay to see that happen.