"Scholars who study cults (or, as many prefer to call them by the less pejorative term, “New Religious Movements”) explain that there is no simple answer to the question “Who joins cults?” The only consistent variable seems to be age—young .people are likely to join the cults than older people."
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Michael Shermer in: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, Macmillan, 1 September 2002, p. 295
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