Alright, I’ve been sitting on this for three or four days now, and I can’t stand it anymore.
Tom Cruise, take your Scientology and shove it up straight up your ass. (Oh, there I went and outed myself as an SP. Shoot.)
In case you’re not following what I’m talking about, here’s the recap. Brooke Shields, a few weeks ago, talked about her struggles with postpartum depression, and how seeing a psychiatrist and taking Paxil had probably saved her life, because she was near-suicidal. Well, Tom the Scientology Nut, in the middle of promoting Spielberg’s remake of War of the Worlds (which I now definitely won’t see), slammed her, with quotes like the following:
These drugs are dangerous. I have actually helped people come off.
When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things.
and
You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street in some way, they’re making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here’s the thing you have to understand with psychiatry. There is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal.
Vitamins? Are you kidding me? Postpartum depression is serious, and it’s real, and if there’s one thing above all else that makes Scientology one of the most dangerous, evil cults on the planet, it’s this claim that psychology and psychiatry are shams. These drugs are backed up by real, scientifically conducted research, not some vague anecdotal mumbo-jumbo (like your talk about vitamins). I know too many people, including myself, who have been helped, even saved, by psychiatric drugs and counseling.
Trying to steer people away from real science and toward your money-grubbing cult’s pseudo-scientific snake oil, that’s what’s criminal. Mr. Cruise, the blood of any woman — or God help us all, her child — who dies because she listened to you and didn’t seek real treatment instead of vitamins, is on your hands. Hopefully there’s not a “misunderstood” in there for you.
Comments
2 responses to “Dear Mr. Cruise”
Tom Cruise wields English like a foreign language. He is speaking, so we can be somewhat flexible about rules of grammar (although his errors require the flexibility of a contortionist). His rhetorical errors should not be forgiven. For example, “Scientifically, you can prove that.” I am sure that I cannot. Perhaps what he should have said is, “It has been shown that…in a study done by Dr. X. Crackpot…published in the Washington Times.” Tom, when you present a thesis, you need to present supporting evidence. If said evidence does not exist, perhaps you should reconsider the thesis.
[…] As a follow-up to my previous invective-laden diatribe, I thought you’d be interested to see that the same people who brought us welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com are at it again with tomcruiseisnuts.com. I particularly love their “disclaimer” at the bottom: Our use of the term “nuts” is meant, as defined in Webster’s, as a reference to an “eccentric” person. That’s all. We do not mean to in any way denigrate or belittle anyone with mental illness. In fact, we take mental illness very seriously, which is why Mr. Cruise’s ill-informed rant inspired us to create this website. We don’t have anything personally against Mr. Cruise, either. We think he’s a first-class actor and a humanitarian. We did used to worry that he was a misguided zealot, but that’s all. Now we think he’s a dangerous, misguided zealot. […]