Editing Cult Awareness Network (section)

==''60 Minutes'' special report==

In 1997, two years after the [[Jason Scott case|Scott case]], [[CBS News]] aired a ''[[60 Minutes]]'' special on the case.<ref>{{cite news|title=CAN: The Cult Awareness Network|newspaper=CBS News 60 Minutes|date=December 28, 1997}}</ref> Among other things, it discovered that a signatory who had been responsible for one of the most damaging [[affidavit]]s against CAN had renounced his testimony. ''60 Minutes'' also reported that a [[private investigator]] could find no evidence regarding CAN's alleged use of [[Deprogramming|deprogrammers]]. Given this evidence sociologist [[Stephen A. Kent|Stephen Kent]] concludes that the case against CAN was "weak".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kent|first=Stephen|title=Academic Compromise in the Social Scientific Study of Alternative Religions|journal=Nova Religio|date=October 1998|volume=2|issue=1|pages=44–54|doi=10.1525/nr.1998.2.1.44}}</ref>