More specifically, Birchers were collectively latched onto the Laetrile moneyteat. One of their objections to Evil Socialistic Gubblement was the interference with their constitutional right to exploit cancer patients. Various dregs from the John Birch Society founded the National Health Federation in 1955, as a mutual-protection umbrella group for cancer-exploitation con-men.
The NHF have a new generation of leadership now, more specifically employed in the diet-supplement scampill industry, so they are more focussed on the noble fight against food-safety and honesty-in-advertising legislation, though that is awkward to say out loud and is better couched as “Food Purity through Free-Market Forces”. They present themselves as New-Age niceness, without the ALL-CAPS shoutiness of Alex Jones and Natural News. Though you don’t have to scratch very deep to find the anti-fluoride conspiracism and AIDS denialism and the news that environmental degradation is all the work of swarthy immigrants.
Anyway, they are still very active, carrying on the Bircher legacy.
I feel such pity for these kids. 
The “New American” is still published. JBS still has a three letter domain name. A dot org, but still.
Sometimes, you gotta abort the parents.
Growing up in Plato’s Cave.
Daddy Fred Koch was a co-founder and funder of the JBS. The Koch Bros never strayed from that, in spite of some theatrics of pretending to distance.
What happens on Thursday 
For Scientology, Thursday 2pm is when every Org has to report their stats for the week, and then get chewed out if they’re not better than the week before. (Good luck with that.)
… so how did Scientology get your attention in the first place anyway—there must be a story there
Jones Snr. (the sixth smartest boy in Texas™) was/is of course a Bircher which may go a long way to explain Alex.
Well…
I’d known of Scientology for a while, but when they tried to RMGROUP alt.religion.scientology from Usenet (ignoring hierarchy trivia here) I drifted in, and got involved.
Then I joined the local Toronto protests, organized by Gregg Hagglund, who I knew of from Mr. Gameway’s Ark.
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