User:MartinPoulter/Refs for Purification Rundown

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This is an "inbox" of refs relating to the Purification Rundown article. Some may be more appropriate for the Downtown Medical article instead. They have been collected from others' postings to the article's Talk page. This list enables me to comment on refs individually. Thanks to users who have suggested refs.

  • AP and Post Wire Services (April 19, 2007). "Crui$ing for Cash". New York Post. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Staff (April 19, 2007). "Cruise to detox NY". Sunday Times, Australia. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Smith, Kyle (April 20, 2007). "Don't Be Tricked By $ci-Fi Tom-Foolery". New York Post. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

This is an opinion piece - not suitable for establishing factual content. IGNORE

USED extensively in Downtown Medical article

Duplicates content from other sources - IGNORE

Short- not much content- IGNORE

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useful ref for other articles, but only mention on Purif duplicates content from other sources. IGNORED

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Brief mention of Purif being delivered in a Scientology center in Pittsburgh - IGNORED

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dead link and apparently not archived - CAN'T FIND

dead link and apparently not archived - CAN'T FIND

dead link and apparently not archived - CAN'T FIND

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USED but LOTS MORE CONTENT yet to mine

  • New York Press, May 2007, in an article titled "The rundown on the Scientology's Purification Rundown":
    "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.' [...]    " USED
  • In Slate, Oct. 2004, in an article titled "Poisons, Begone!":
    "Some favorable articles have been written about this approach by apparently well-credentialed physicians. However, according to James Dillard, an assistant clinical professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and clinical director of Columbia's Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, there is a "disconnect" between the studies described in many of these articles and the conclusions presented. The studies themselves typically lack adequate sample sizes, well-matched control groups, randomization, and other basic elements of experimental design; Dillard calls them "anecdotal," at best. " USED
  • In San Francisco Chronicle, June 2004, in an article titled "Scientology link to public schools":
    " 'It's pseudoscience, right up there with colonic irrigation,' said Dr. Peter Banys, director of substance abuse programs at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Igor Grant, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego, agreed: 'I'm not aware of any data that show that going into a sauna detoxifies you from toxins of any kind.' Three other addiction experts contacted by The Chronicle echoed their skepticism."
  • Boston Herald, March 1998, in an article titled "Inside the Church of Scientology: Scientology reaches into schools through Narconon"
    " 'The idea of sweating out poisons is kind of an old wives' tale,' said William Jarvis, a professor of public health at Loma Linda University in Southern California. 'It's all pretty hokey.' Salt and water are the only substances that the Purification Rundown removes from the body, according to a 1990 U.S. Food and Drug Administration report, Jarvis said. 'Narconon's program is not safe,' the Oklahoma Board of Mental Health said in a 1992 rejection of Chilocco New Life Center, a Scientology residential hospital on an Indian reservation in Newkirk, Okla. 'No scientifically well-controlled studies were found that documented the safety of the Narconon program,' the board said. [...]"
  • Sidebar from Boston Herald, Feb 1 2005 "Helping Spread the Word": Addiction Specialists Criticize Detoxification Program

"Updike questioned Hubbard's claims that colored ooze is produced when drugs leave the body ("That's bizarre - that wouldn't be accepted by most people in the medical community"); that opiates and psychedelics are stored in the body for years ("There is nothing they've presented that proves that at all"); or that niacin pulls drugs from the body's fat ("Niacin has no standard use for the treatment of chemical dependency")."

There are a lot of celebrity gossip stories about Katie Holmes taking the Purification Rundown, but it's hard to find more than a rumour. The Scotsman (3 March 2009) "Ditching the Detox" seems interesting in putting detoxification in context but it's so vague in what it says about the rundown that I've decided not to use it.

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