http://www.nypress.com/20/22/news&columns/feature.cfm“I’m not here converting these men and women to Scientology. And I’ve got to tell you something—I’ve been a Scientologist 20 years. In Sacramento I, more than any other Scientologist, got new people into Scientology, me personally. I’m very good at converting people, if I want to.” Jim Woodworth is the director of the New York Rescue Workers’ Detoxification Project, and he is bristling at the suggestion that his program is an arm of the Church of Scientology. He insists that his group is totally secular, stating that a look at his tax returns and a discussion with any of the close to 800 men and women he has treated will bear that out. His mission at the program, also known as Downtown Medical, is to help sick rescue workers—not to make new Scientologists. “My purpose here is the purpose that I stated, to restore the quality of life to the rescue workers. It’s not a religious purpose.”
Odd statement, isn't it? "I could convert people if I wanted to but I don't want to so I'm not."
A must read!
Here were some things that stood out...
During her 2005 run for Manhattan borough president, it was revealed that Lopez helped steer $630,000 in city funding to Downtown Medical. Following that, she received over $100,000 in campaign contributions from Scientology associates and the scorn of Mayor Bloomberg.
Monserrate even introduced a bill to declare April 19 “L. Ron Hubbard Day” in advance of a Manhattan fundraiser for the program hosted by Scientologist, actor and Downtown Medical co-founder Tom Cruise, which raised $1.3 million.
At least one elected official had no idea he was considered a supporter of the program until he was contacted for this story.
***Kind of like a lot of people that stumble onto this website... They had no idea that they were supporters of Scientology. Then they find out that in a desperate attempt to get their loved ones help from their addiction... they are!
Woodworth supplied a number of letters of endorsement, from elected officials and union leaders alike, offering their support for the program. One letter, written in 2004, is from Senator Chuck Schumer, though Schumer’s office has indicated that the senator no longer supports the program.
***Same thing with a lot of people that realize they have been taken by undercover Scientologists.
But an examination of the records and discussions with experts finds a program lacking full scientific testing, that has been booted out of other cities, that uses potentially dangerous amounts of vitamins and that Hubbard himself admitted was not medicine, among other concerns. Multiple experts in the field of toxicology from across the country were contacted for this story. Eleven replied, though some asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal. Of those 11, not one would vouch for the program’s effectiveness or would recommend it to patients, often calling it “dangerous” or “quackery.”
***Hmmmmm... THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!
When reviewed, the studies that recount this great success do not meet the basic standards for scientific research that a high school student would be forced to follow in freshman biology. Sample sizes are extremely small, and research is conducted by parties with a vested interest in the program’s success. The same is true for the research specifically dedicated to the work of Downtown Medical.
***This holds true for Narconon progam as well folks.
In 2004, when criticism of both Narconon and its connections to Scientology began to intensify, the San Francisco school district turned to an independent party, the San Francisco Medical Society, to evaluate the merits of Narconon. Those merits could not be found.
***Proves my point.
In a September 2004 letter to school district officials Steve Heilig, director of health and education for the San Francisco Medical Society, confirmed what critics had been alleging for years: Narconon is not science. In his letter, Heilig wrote that he and five others who evaluated the Narconon curriculum found it “often exemplifies the outdated, non-evidence-based and sometimes factually inaccurate approach, which has not served students well for decades.”
***FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SENDING YOUR LOVED ONES TO NARCONON... PLEASE HEAR THAT LAST PARAGRAPH!
This just further confirms what I have come to believe - If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... It's a Scientologist.
mr.mac :D