Why do you engage in debates with Scientologists, such as this one?

The topics of this debate appear to be archeology, paleontology, biology, and physical anthropology, all rather far removed from the field of social work.

If you have abandoned Scientology, why do you keep returning to these discussions?

Answers, please!

Monica Pignotti is anything but an “honest broker”-she goes to great lengths to protect her own interests while throwing those of others under the next bus.

In 2009, WordPress suspended a blog operated by the Internet persona “Wayward Radish” as it contained defamatory material.

As a result, Monica Pignotti called WordPress cowards without really saying what they were afraid of.

Monica Pignotti also accused WordPress of censorship.

Monica Pignotti mocked WordPress for allowing a blog favorable to Thought Field Therapy (name redacted here); the irony there is that Pignotti was a practitioner of Thought Field Therapy for over five years.

Nonetheless, Monica Pignotti has several blogs on WordPress, despite her antipathy towards them. One, amazingly, criticizes Thought Field Therapy, the first word that comes to mind is hypocrisy.

She also has several other blogs. One might think, given the severity of her attack on WordPress, that she might boycott them. No, since, in some contexts, WordPress supplies a useful means to an end for Monica Pignotti, she uses it.

Fortunately, academic institutions take note of these facts when reviewing Pignotti’s applications, and make the wise decision to keep on looking.

Several people posted questions about her credentials (she has a Ph.D., but not a license) and some of her associates, who have questionable backgrounds (one, Larry Sarner, was involved in in a voting machine investment scam).

Many comments were removed and there is now no mechanism to post new ones.

Is it possible Mercer joined forces with Andrew Langer? Langer, who likes be thought of as a libertarian, is actually a conservative. Langer has stated that he often has issues with anonymous comments, including this entry on his blog.

Langer used to be with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which is generally viewed as a “mouthpiece” for the oil and tobacco industries. They promulgate a great deal of pseudoscience, quackery, and misinformation about global warming.

One of their global warming experts, Myron Ebell, admits to having had no scientific training. His appearance on Newsnight is quite amusing. Ebell did not do a good enough job for the likes of ExxonMobil, and the days of his six figure retainers seem to be over.

Then we have John Berlau. Berlau runs CEI’s Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs, odd, as he’s never been either. Berlau is another global warming denier. He believes that trees pollute more than cars. He believes that DDT is good for the environment.

Once, when asked a series of basic scientific questions, he replied that a gas, when heated, gets heavier!

Langer and his colleagues at CEI have opposed the work of Ileana Rosenthal and her Humanetics Foundation.

Interestingly, Rosenthal has also been opposed by Monica Pignotti.

Pignotti is a former Scientologist. She abandoned Scientology and, after some time, became a devotee of Thought Field Therapy and Voice Technology. She has abandoned those, and is now a frequent collaborator of Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner, and Sarner’s wife, Linda Rosa.

Rosa and Sarner operate various websites and blogs; at least one of them has the disturbing title of child torture.

This blog has also seen fit to publish the “work” of Charly D. Miller.

Miller describes herself as a retired paramedic and author. She plans to, but has not, written travel guides to locales mentioned in the Harry Potter books.

Miller posts a great deal of copyrighted material to her website, and she has, on more than one occasion, removed it.

When these, and other incidents, were questioned on Mercer’s blog, commenting came to an abrupt halt.

One has to wonder whether Andrew Langer, now operating the Institute for Liberty, was involved, given his stated opposition to the use of anonymous comments.

Another possible “suspect” is Brooke Oberwetter. Oberwetter was with CEI for a while, but has subsequently joined “DC Signal” which describes itself as as “communications consultancy.” Is it possible censorship is one of their offerings?