Logan H. Merrill
Investigative Reporter
ABOUT
Logan graduated from Brandeis University under the writing tutelage of famed playwright William Gibson. After authoring scripts for film and television, Logan shifted his focus to online journalism. He specializes in media and ethics, human rights and psychiatric abuse.
LATEST STORIES
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Enrollment to Religious Institutions Skyrockets, Proving Young Adults Aren’t Moving Away from Faith
Faith-based universities have experienced a whopping increase of young adults attending; the movement spans many religions and indicates that reports of religion’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
HUMAN RIGHTS
USCIRF Releases Report on Worldwide Oppression of Jehovah’s Witnesses
From the deprivation of rights to imprisonment, heavy fines, harassment, unemployment, disruption of religious services, forced labor and torture, Jehovah’s Witnesses too often pay a terrible price for their peaceful beliefs.
MENTAL HEALTH
Pontiac Hospital Latest in Tsunami of Reports of Violence and Abuse at Psychiatric Institutions
A Michigan psychiatric hospital loses government funding over abuse allegations that include an unwarranted death and coercion to receive dangerous treatment.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Largest-Ever Operation Against Human Trafficking Demonstrates International Cooperation
Operation Liberterra II rescued 3,222 potential human trafficking victims and netted 2,517 arrests as a result of monitoring nearly 24,000 flights.
MENTAL HEALTH
New WMA Guidelines Authorize Forced Experiments on the Mentally Ill
Dehumanizing the so-called mentally ill by authorizing coercive experiments is a regression to an ugly past.
DRUGS
San Francisco Will Pay Addicts Not to Do Drugs, Thanks to Just-Passed Measure
San Francisco tries everything to slow drug use … except the one thing proven to work. Deaths have tripled as a result.
VIOLATIONS
Far Out’s Editor Lee Thomas Blocks Targets of His Bigotry, Violates His Own Guidelines
Editor of bigoted anti-Scientology article responds to complaints by simply blocking the accounts that make them. Lee Thomas fails the basic tests of journalistic fairness.
MENTAL HEALTH
“I Was Not Suicidal When I Entered, But I Was When I Left”—Crime & Chaos at DC Psychiatric Institute
Psychiatric Institute of Washington, DC, the city’s only for-profit mental hospital, is home to “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”
HUMAN RIGHTS
Arizona Voters Pass Measure Mandating Life Sentences for Child Sex Traffickers
A new law sends “a clear message that Arizona will not tolerate child sex trafficking.” But will it effectively deter the crime?
DRUGS
“Give Me Half a Gram of Meth and You Can Take My Daughter”—Oklahoma Woman Arrested
A shocking story encapsulates the inhumanity drugs induce when a mother gives her daughter away … to her dealer. The little girl is still missing.
