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Originally Posted by Excelsior
How many followers did the planet x hoax had at it's peak ?
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I assume you mean Nancy's? There are quite a few others, but that was the main cult. Anyway, that is the single biggest unanswerable question about the whole deal. For what it's worth, I think it was more like a pyramid. Nancy, then her innermost circle of trusted acolytes like Milly Gumper, Jan Rypdal... Probably never more than about 10-15 of these at any one time.
Beyond that, a wider layer of cult cannon fodder - the real Zetadrones. The sort who sold up their houses and relocated to godforsaken places to avoid the Shift. Now that is the first number it is hard to arrive at. Still small globally, I'd bet, maybe not more than 100-400.
But the people that always bothered me most were the outermost circle, who were just ordinary people who'd happened on Zetatalk - maybe because a Zetadrone acquaintance told them about it - and who were making their lives a misery worrying about this stuff. (Sometimes they'd turn up on sci.astro looking for advice.) For all we know there could be thousands of these who have endured pointless anxieties just because of Nancy Lieder's nonsense.
This is all mere conjecture, though.