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Via The New York Post: "Scientology superstar Tom Cruise is coming here to promote his controversial 'detox' project to 9/11 workers, and will host a mega-fund-raising gala for it.
"Tickets for the April 19 fund-raiser, which will star Cruise and benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, run as high as $100,000 for a table for eight.
"The downtown Manhattan clinic offers free Scientology-inspired treatments to firefighters, cops and other rescue workers exposed to high levels of toxins at Ground Zero.
"The program - which had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in city funds - hasn't been endorsed by the Fire or Police departments and has been described by some experts as nothing more than medical mumbo-jumbo.
"But others have embraced the regimen, which includes high doses of niacin to release fatty acids into the bloodstream, ingesting cold-pressed oil and sweating off 'toxins' in a sauna set at 140 to 180 degrees for 21/2 to five hours a day, with frequent showers.
"Experts question studies produced by advocates that claim the program works.
"Among the results claimed in one study were higher IQs."
