Hervé Machi

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Hearing of Serge Blisko, President of the MIVILUDES, before the Senate Commission on Cults and Health

CICNS's twelve-part commentary on Serge Blisko's November 2012 Senate hearing: the MIVILUDES's rhetoric, the About-Picard Act's record of convictions, and the child-victim figures its president could not substantiate.

Government inquiries

In-Depth Inquiry into an Anti-Cult Commission: The Harms of Façade Rationalism and of Scientism

CICNS on the 2013 Senate commission on cults and health: four months in, not one targeted practitioner had been heard, while officials asserted victim numbers they admitted they could not support.