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Netflix’s ‘Wild Wild Country’ Sparks Questions Over Use of ‘Cult’ Label

By Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation
Image via Michael Thielen / Flickr
Apr 10, 2018
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The Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country has revived interest in the “free-love cult” founded by Indian guru Rajneesh, or “Osho,” that in 1984 launched a “bioterror attack,” spreading salmonella in restaurants near the group’s Oregon headquarters.

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