Matt Novak's history piece on Synanon, published on Paleofuture and republished by Gizmodo on 15 April 2014, stating that by 1976 the organization was grossing an estimated 8.7 million dollars a year with total assets estimated at more than 30 million dollars.
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Tier 3: a history blog piece by named journalist Matt Novak, hosted on Paleofuture and republished by Gizmodo, read directly, stating that by 1976 Synanon was grossing an estimated 8.7 million dollars a year with estimated total assets of over 30 million dollars. The article names no in-line source, document or methodology for those two figures specifically, though its closing bibliography lists Rod Janzen's academic history of Synanon among general sources for the piece as a whole; this pass could not confirm the figures trace to that book rather than elsewhere, so it is scored as an unattributed journalistic estimate rather than credited to Janzen's scholarship. Citation
AuthorMatt Novak
PublisherPaleofuture, republished by Gizmodo
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://paleofuture.com/blog/2014/4/15/synanons-sober-utopia-how-a-drug-rehab-program-became-a-violent-cult
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- New Religious Movements, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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