The Conway and Siegelman Claims against Religious Cults: An Assessment of Their Data

In recent years, support for the deprogramming of cult converts has come from a small body of research. This study examines one of the better known anti-cult investigations, the Conway and Siegelman claims of deleterious influence resulting from cult affiliation. Using their reported data, there was no statistical support for their claims of information disease. In fact, the only significant correlations that emerged from the data tended to support a therapeutic view of some cult affiliation.