On 2006-01-19 09:50:00, TheWho wrote:
I have met many people who the programs have helped and maybe I am guilty of closing my eyes to the pain it has brought to others at times.
But it is clear that the opposite is true, also, that people who experienced pain from the programs have a difficult time seeing the benefits brought to others.
Well, you're looking at this from the perspective of a marketer. You've probably met plenty of people who
say the Program has helped them. For every one, I can find you at least one who believes just as fervently that the Enquirer's blue dot has helped them or the fortune teller they call w/ their credit card number or, in days gone by, Carter's Little Liver Pills or other patent medicines.
As it turns out, they were all quite wrong. When you look into the
clinical studies; the ones that track objective data, not subjective, you see a very different story emerge. The Dept of Justice lists toughlove style treatment under "what doesn't work".
Same for LGAT (your much vaunted seminars).
http://www.rickross.com/reference/apolo ... ist23.html Just like fine Bolivian blow, they make you feel
just fucking great!, but they're not really good for you at all.
The body of
Benjamin Franklin, printer,
(Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents worn out,
And scripts of it's lettering and gilding)
Lies Here, food for worms!
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will, as he believed, appear once more
In a new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
By it's Author!
Epitaph for himself.
--Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790