War of the Words, Starring Tom Cruise

In a recent interview with Crazy Tom Cruise, Entertainment Weekly actually takes the Toothy One to task for a number of misstatements emitting from his superstar Scientologist.

"Well, look at the history. Jung was an editor for the Nazi papers during World War II. [According to Aryeh Maidenbaum, the director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, this is not true.] Look at the experimentation the Nazis did with electric shock and drugging. Look at the drug methadone. That was originally called Adolophine. It was named after Adolf Hitler... [According to the Dictionary of Drugs and Medications, among other sources, this is an urban legend.]"

Ouch. I won't be the first or last to make this observation, but it is interesting -- and a little sad -- when an entertainment mag does a better job fact-checking than most members of the White House press corps.