by Craig Olson
Member since:
January 19, 2006

Quack Attack: John Travolta

November 04, 2006 01:45 PM UTC
views: 0 | comments: 7

  Would you take medical advice from this man?
 
 
   Believe it or not, some people do. This is John Travolta starring in a movie based on a book by L. Ron Hubbard.
 
  Travolta has been in many movies, but I chose this one because Hubbard founded Scientology.
 
  This religious cult uses, or misuses, the emblem of the cross. The APA insists that it is not a religion, but I disagree with them. I feel that it is somewhat like Christian Science, although more bizarre. They reject chemical imbalances in psychiatry, which is a mistake. However, are they right about anything? The answere is "Yes". They have severely criticized psychiatry, and some of their criticisms are correct, as can be seen from the abstract pasted below:
 
Conclusions by Craig
  Although Travolta and Tom Cruise are both brilliant actors, I would not go to them for medical advice. Yet some of their criticisms of drugs and shock treatment are valid.
 

Comments: 7

Fran S. Nov 4, 2006, 1:57pm UTC
John Travolta just seems miles better than the lunatic Tom Cruise.
Roxanne N. Nov 4, 2006, 2:03pm UTC
I'm looking forward to it.
Craig Olson Nov 4, 2006, 2:20pm UTC
What are you looking forward to? The movie has been out for a while. Travolta might have recruited Cruise. I think that Travolta has been in Scientology longer.
Barbara B. Nov 4, 2006, 2:28pm UTC
Personally, I don't care what either of those actors think about much of anything. I enjoy watching them act, but really, why should they step out of bounds of what they do for a living, which gives them a pulpit of sorts to speak from, and tell us what we should think?
Carol Roach Nov 5, 2006, 1:35am UTC
why would anyone take advise from an actor on medical matters, that is just crazy
Craig Olson Nov 6, 2006, 8:55am UTC
In fairness to Cruise, he has apologized for blasting Brooke Shields. It seems that Shields took a medication for postpartum depression. I think that these drugs are overpriced. They spend so much money advertizing the drugs that they jack up the prices. The government should haggle the drug companies down so that elderly people don't have to choose between medicine or food. Elderly people should be able to pay for both medicine and food.
Jacob Mielke Jun 17, 2009, 12:34pm UTC

Sientologists are all nuts anyway, so it's only natural that they reject treatment.

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