Tom Cruise is in New York today to appear at a fund-raiser for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, which employs Scientology-inspired cleansing practices to help 9/11 workers with the the health problems they incurred from exposure to the highly toxic environment at Ground Zero. The detox regimen, which has been dismissed by medical experts as quackery, includes taking high doses of niacin to release fatty acids into the blood, ingesting cold-pressed oil and sweating out toxins in a sauna for periods of up to five hours a day. Sadly, many desperate 9/11 workers, unable to find any suitable treatment for their illnesses, have turned to this insanity, and some have even been fooled into thinking it works. And Tom Cruise is more than happy to play the role of savior, and host a $100,000-a-plate gala to beg money for this devious scheme, whose purpose is to raise the profile of Scientology and its wacky detoxification ideas.
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