The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/07/nyt-gives-some-slightly-better-pr-to-berkeley-rationalist-group-after-zizian-arrests/The New York Times published a piece this week profiling the Berkeley-based Rationalist movement and its arguably cult-y, religious-y ways, and they never once mention the probably actual cult that spun out of their group. Maybe someone within the Rationalist movement saw that they needed a PR boost and knew someone higher up at the New York Times who could do them a favor. Or, maybe, the Times itself felt it needed to take a deeper, kinder look at the Rationalists after they consistently garnered mentions in some fairly unsavory stories through the early part of 2025. In either case, we get this piece this week in the Times that delves i

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