LOUIE TODAY: Alzheimer's and ALS answers

Elizabeth Clare Prophet’s daughter Erin Prophet will join Louie Free, Vindy.com's news radio partner, to expose the flawed thinking that led to her mother’s “apocalyptic prophecies.”

Erin Prophet was 15 in September 1981 when she flew into Montana with her mother — leader, spiritual mother and prophet to thousands of members worldwide of the Church Universal and Triumphant — to tour the newly purchased 12,500-acre ranch at Corwin Springs that became the church headquarters five years later.

Nearly nine years later, Erin and members of the by-then-infamous New Age sect would head into underground shelters they had built, believing the world was about to descend into nuclear chaos. And she would help set the date when that expected chaos would take place. Just two years after that, her mother exhibited signs of dementia and was eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Today, her mother can no longer care for herself, and lives in a basement apartment in private care. But CUT remains in existence, still based in Corwin Springs.

Later, Marwan Sabbagh, M.D., a board-certified geriatric neurologist, will talk about his his lifelong work to find a cure for Alzheimer’s and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

Then Patrick Tucker, senior editor of the World Future Society magazine, "The Futurist," will give the society's take on the issue.

And Philip Carlo, one of America's foremost experts on serial killers, sexual predators and the Mafia, will return to talk about his battle with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), the paralyzing neurodegenerative disease better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.