Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal wrote:

Just read in the paper this morning that GM/Chevy trucks rank as #1 in
customer satisfaction. Despite the heavy media attention GM received
about exploding gas tanks. Are you really suprised that negative media
coverage doesn't always cause lowered sales? Do you still eat apples?
Drink coffee? Buy packaged meats? Despite ARS assertions that negative
PR *does* have a negative effect on potential Scn's, the fact is that
media exposure often does little more than raise public awareness that
certain things actually exist. Realize too that excessive criticism
often makes people curious as to what all the ruckus is about. And not
every curious person agrees with the negative PR. Just the musings of
someone who has made a good living selling contentious products and
services for 30 years...

They look like cretins to you Eric, but then you're hardly open-minded
are you? If it were that simple then no religion would ever get out of
the starting gate. I disagree that "Hubbard made it all up" is as big a
stumbling block as you think it is. It's fundamental that any person
predisposed to skepticism will point that out - whatever the truth of it
is - but you're not in the majority... at least as far as I can tell.