They mentioned Scientology on 60 Minutes this evening, in the article "Depressed and on Welfare". A small excerpt:

[...]

[Leslie Stahl] Bell says there's always been suspicion in the black community of doctors and medicine. But he says that fear is being stoked by what he calls "anti-psychiatrists."

[Psychiatrist Dr. Bell] They are forever pumping into the black community these... "scare" tactics... that there's a genocidal plot to put black children on Ritilin, there's a genocidal plot to put black people on anti-depressant medication...

[Shot of an article "What They Don't Tell you About Psyciatric Drugs": "Read the magazines and newspapers and you will get the message that the new generation of psychiatric drugs are the greatest thing since toaster ovens. But what you don't read, and what..."]

[xxx] Who's spreading those tales?

[Shot of article "How Psychiatry Lit the Racial Fires" "The roots seem harmless enough. The words psychiatry and psychology come from the Greek word 'psyche' meaning 'the soul'...]

Among others, the Church of Scientology, which has long campaigned against psychiatry.

[Shot of the cover of the cult's CCHR front group publication "Psychiatry's Betrayal: Creating Racism" which shows a black man in agony holding up a large metal ball over his head, the ball with a thick short chain leading to a thick metal headband.]

This pamphlet is from something called The Citizen's Commission on Human Rights. a group founded by Scientology.

[Shots of the cult's CCHR website]

The same stuff is on their web site. All targeted specifically at blacks,

[Shot of web page "Psychiatric Oppression of African Americans"

telling them that psychiatrists are racist.

[Bell] Now if you're not that sophisticated, if you're not well exposed, not well read, and you get this very... slick, nice-looking literature, you're gonna be prone to believe it.

[...]

-- LYING IS A SCIENTOLOGY SACRAMENT ASK THEM ABOUT XENU Mike O'Connor <http://www.leptonicsystems.com/>

From: keshet@despammed.com (Keshet)
Subject: Re: Scientology on 60 Minutes tonight
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Date: 11 Nov 2002 08:40:04 -0500

Mike O'Connor (mike@leptonicsystems.com) wrote in <mike-A72B05.21050510112002@rcache2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>: > They mentioned Scientology on 60 Minutes this evening, in the article > "Depressed and on Welfare". A small excerpt: > > [...] > > [Leslie Stahl] > Bell says there's always been suspicion in the black community of > doctors and medicine. But he says that fear is being stoked by what he > calls "anti-psychiatrists." > > [Psychiatrist Dr. Bell] > They are forever pumping into the black community these... "scare" > tactics... that there's a genocidal plot to put black children on > Ritilin, there's a genocidal plot to put black people on anti-depressant > medication... > > [Shot of an article "What They Don't Tell you About Psyciatric Drugs": > "Read the magazines and newspapers and you will get the message that the > new generation of psychiatric drugs are the greatest thing since toaster > ovens. But what you don't read, and what..."] > > [xxx] > Who's spreading those tales? > > [Shot of article "How Psychiatry Lit the Racial Fires" "The roots seem > harmless enough. The words psychiatry and psychology come from the Greek > word 'psyche' meaning 'the soul'...] > > Among others, the Church of Scientology, which has long campaigned > against psychiatry. > > [Shot of the cover of the cult's CCHR front group publication > "Psychiatry's Betrayal: Creating Racism" which shows a black man in > agony holding up a large metal ball over his head, the ball with a thick > short chain leading to a thick metal headband.] > > This pamphlet is from something called The Citizen's Commission on Human > Rights. a group founded by Scientology. > > [Shots of the cult's CCHR website] > > The same stuff is on their web site. All targeted specifically at > blacks, > > [Shot of web page "Psychiatric Oppression of African Americans" > > telling them that psychiatrists are racist. > > [Bell] > Now if you're not that sophisticated, if you're not well exposed, not > well read, and you get this very... slick, nice-looking literature, > you're gonna be prone to believe it. > > [...]

Presumably this is Dr. Carl C. Bell, who is the author of the following article (Pimping the African-American community, Psychiatr. Serv. 1996 47: 1025):

<begin quote> Pimping the African-American Community

Being African American, I mainly read African-American-targeted news and information. Recently Iıve been struck with the deluge of antipsychiatry literature being pumped into the African-American community by organizations that seek to destroy the psychiatric profession.

For example, I was disheartened to find an article in the Citizen Newspaper, a small Chicago black newspaper, on a book about how psychiatrists have betrayed the trust of blacks by subverting the educational system and the family. It was written by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (noted by the article to have been established by the Church of Scientology in 1969). Further, Iım familiar with an impressive-looking pamphlet produced by the same group that warns African Americans about the federal "violence initiative," touted as a genocidal plot to permanently harm the African-American community.

While Iım certain that racism is embedded in the roots of medicine and psychiatry, as a black psychiatrist Iım concerned that this kind of antipsychiatry propaganda will further dissuade African Americans who truly need psychiatric care from going to get legitimate treatment. Iım also distressed that African Americans may take to heart some of this propaganda, which begins by appealing to legitimate concerns about racism and then moves on to suggest that the government is waging a genetic war against nonwhite children, and that they may go to war to fight someone elseıs illegitimate battles.

Psychiatry should be familiar with this strategy by now, as it has been used to dismantle psychosurgery, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychiatric hospitalization, and it is currently being used to attack psychiatric drugs. Yet most psychiatrists seem comfortable with standing by while the African-American community gets used by groups advocating for the destruction of psychiatry. Maybe the charges of racism in the profession are too close to home and psychiatrists donıt feel comfortable combating the antipsychiatry message being promulgated to African Americans. Maybe because most psychiatrists arenıt African American, they donıt feel that the antipsychiatry propaganda flooding the African-American community is their problem. Maybe the field isnıt aware of the harm being done in the African-American community by these political tactics.

Whatever the reason, I am disturbed that organized psychiatry isnıt doing very much, and I am ashamed of psychiatryıs lack of involvement in this issue. For more information on the antipsychiatry movement and how the African-American community has been used to further its aims, read Madness in the Streets by Rael Jean Isaac and Virginia C. Armat (New York, Free Press, 1990).

--CARL C. BELL, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Community Mental Health Council in Chicago <end quote>

Keshet

-- Keshet@despammed.com ** http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/scn/racism/ Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts. Mark Twain

From: Jon Ruth <jon.ruth@att.net>
Subject: Scientology on 60 Minutes, 10-NOV-02
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60 Minutes ran a piece on Sunday night, 10 November 2002 entitled:

# DEPRESSED AND ON WELFARE -- Clinical depression may be keeping many welfare recipients from getting back to work and off public assistance. Lesley Stahl reports.

(From: <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml> Don't try to make sense of this link, but it gets you where you need to go.)

In it, Scientology is mentioned. An excerpt of the dialog follows:

# Your Keyword(s): scientology # # CBS -- 60 Minutes # # WCBS 11/10/02 - 8:37 PM... pumping into the black community these scare tactics that there's a genocidal plot to put black children on ritalin, there's a genocidal plot to put black people on antidepressant medication. # # >> Stahl: Who's spreading those tales? Among others, the church of scientology, which has long campaigned against psychiatry. This pamphlet is from something called the citizens commission on human rights, a group founded by scientology. The same stuff is on their web site, all targeted specifically at blacks, telling them that psychiatrists are racist. # # >> Bell: Now, if you're not that sophisticated, if you're not well-exposed, not well-read, and you get this very slick, nice-looking literature, you're going to be prone to believe it. # # >> Stahl: Do you get that yourself, as a black psychiatrist? # # >> Bell: I've got a little more entree into the black community because i'm fairly black, so i've got a little more credibility. But it is near impossible for me to, say, put a black child on ritalin, or put somebody on an antidepressant, without getting this huge argument. # # >> Stahl: Winning those... # # Note: There are occasional misspellings or other inaccuracies contained in the transcripts. TVEyes.com, Inc. believes these transcripts to be predominantly correct but does not guarantee their accuracy.

(From: <http://consumer.tveyes.com/database/expand.asp?ln=4297759&key=scientology&admin=>)

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