Tom Cruise explains it all

[geekchick]

Hearing a Scientologist claim that anything is a "pseudo science" is just laughable. I suppose if you're inclined to take medical advice from a cult-pushing actor with no medical background, you'll probably get what you deserve though.

Cruise: No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.
Lauer: Aren't there examples, and might not Brooke Shields be an example, of someone who benefited from one of those drugs?
Cruise: All it does is mask the problem, Matt. And if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem. That's what it does. That's all it does. You're not getting to the reason why. There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.
[...]
Cruise: Matt. Matt, Matt, you don't even — you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, okay? That's what I've done. Then you go and you say where's the medical test? Where's the blood test that says how much Ritalin you're supposed to get?
[...]
Lauer: But you're now telling me that your experiences with the people I know, which are zero, are more important than my experiences.
Cruise: What do you mean by that?
Lauer: You're telling me what's worked for people I know or hasn't worked for people I know.  I'm telling you, I’ve lived with these people and they're better.
Cruise: So, you're advocating it.

Dude, when Entertainment Weekly can point out that you're talking out of your ass... (It seems they fact-checked some of his claims. Heh.)

Comments

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I usually just ignore Tom Cruise, even when he's in a movie I'm watching, but it's getting harder and harder.

[geekchick]

There was a really funny moment in a movie theater a while back: I forget what we'd gone to see, but this trailer for some historical flick comes on, there's samurai and battle scenes and costumes and it's looking potentially good. Then Tom Cruise shows up on screen, and there's a loud, disappointed "awwwww" heard from the audience. Cracked me up, since I was thinking the same thing but wouldn't have actually said it out loud.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

That would probably have been The Last Samurai. I had exactly the same reaction. It's in my Netflix queue, and I've heard it's good, but I'm going to have a very difficult time sitting through it, I know.

[geekchick]

Yeah, it was The Last Samurai. I was all ready to see it until Tom showed up, at which point it dropped way down on my list.

[winterbadger]

It's good, but despite Tom Cruise trying to be Kevin Costner, not because of him. Actually, IMO, it's good because of KenWatanabe and Edward Zwick. It's a distinctively American movie romanticizing samurai culture from a baby-boomer perspective (no, honestly). Japanese romanticize samuari culture in anentirely diferent way, IMO. But it's still a good movie.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

I hear wonderful things about Ken Watanabe all the time from a friend of mine, and that's the reason it's on the Netflix queue. She also got me going back to look at Mifune movies, and I'm spellbound.

Unfortunately or fortunately, as the case may be, The Last Samurai is down toward the bottom of my queue of 500 discs. (That's the limit Netflix will let you list, and yes, I've maxed it out.)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Sad thing is, people will take his bullshit seriously because he's famous. TC can take his opinion of psychiatric meds and stick them straight up his ass, if there's room with his head up there....

[tommx.livejournal.com]

i still plan on seeing war of the worlds because i do like spielberg, but i am not going to enjoy it as much as i might have.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Tom Cruise recently fired his publicist, who regarded and the best in the business, and hired his sister as a replacement.

This has led to a decline in his ability to control his image. His old publicist used to do a very good job of controlling it, and Tom's sister isn't as good.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Its a pity that they didn't ask him what he thought was going on in psychiatric diseases and then asked him what he thought about e-meters, engrams and thetans. That would have made him look even more stupid!

[macropixi.livejournal.com]

I caught a little of that interview. Turned it off and said FUCK YOU to the screen the minute he said there was no such thing as a chemical imbalance.

Soooo, my mood swings are a result of what then?

[luridprovidence.livejournal.com]

Scientology, gotta love cute little cults (specially those starte by Sci-fi authors)

I don't agree with the way we're handing out meds these days. I'm looking around my highschool and half hte people are on so many drugs it's insane. Many of these are addictive, and many people just SELL their dose to other people.

We're an overdrugged nation

*rant over*
TC is talking out of his ass.