I mentioned this to my very close friend (still a believing jw) a couple of weeks ago, just to see if she had heard about it. She asked for a link to check it out so I sent her one. She looked into it and predictably concluded in was a smear campaign against the jws and she wasn't going to fall for what satan and the apostates were trying to do, we don't know the whole story, and the Elders would NEVER allow such a thing to happen, blah, blah, blah....Anyone else in the U.S. try to bring this up to friends or family? If so what was the outcome?