The "Church" of Scientology is a dangerous cult, which is concerned primarily with discrediting orthodox medicine and psychology and in turn offers its deluded victims dangerous hypnotic and other techniques which falsely masquerade as scientific.

This attutude is dangerous and may have tragic results. Not only may mental and physical conditions which require early attention for their successful treatment be neglected, but the unfortunate sufferer may embark upon a course of scientology processing which could produce worsening of his condition, thereby greatly decreasing, and possibly destroying, the prospect of successful treatment by orthodox medicine. One of the major reasons for this is the inability of inexperienced scientology practitioners to observe mental and physical conditions. There are many conditions, physical as well as mental, where skill and experience are required to detect them in their incipient stages when prompt treatment is important. The price of error may be the suicide of the patient, and inadequate madical training may well result in failure to locate, as the cause of the patient's depression, brain tumor, cerebral clot or other medical condition. The "Church" of Scientology assumes that all conditions are amenable to indiscriminately applied scientology techniques. Scientologists apply sledge-hammer methods, hitting savagely wherever they see a head. Such methods are often disastrous.

From: olihilyu@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Scientology's Danger to Mental Health
Date: 17 Jan 2006 18:48:50 -0800
Message-ID: <1137552530.919937.259790@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

One of the worst aspects of Scientology is that its practitioners almost entirely lack any medical knowledge, and are unable to discern in a preclear symptoms which would indicate to a medical practitioner the need for medical attention.

Scientology has a filter system wherein the ill and insane are not encouraged to seek scientology as a cure. It is not the policy of scientology to accept for processing or as a student a person having a history of mental illness or who appeared to have mental illness. Scientology uses printed forms of contract in which preclears and students acknowledge that they are not extending any guarantee of cure of any specific ailment the applicant may possess and that the course he is to undergo or treatment he is to receive is not in any way medical or psychiatric...but only a series of exercises designed to increase ability.

From: olihilyu@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Scientology's Danger to Mental Health
Date: 17 Jan 2006 18:56:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1137552980.639143.259220@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

The whole routine, including the printed form, is all part of Hubbard's cunning in deluding his victims. In a perverse way it heightens the belief of the applicant that scientology will cure his complaint, for this unctuous negation by scientology of the claim to cure, while at the same time loudly proclaiming in its literature that it positively cures, suggests to the victim that scientology must be a great healer it claims to be because of the apparent modest disclaimer it so disarmingly makes.

But the filter system does not filter, it was never intended to filter out those in need of psychiatric help or possessing mental troubles, for these are scientology's prime target. It is quite apparent that a substantial number of people suffering from various mental illnesses and in need of psychiatric care are accepted into scientology for processing and training. Some of these persons had had earlier psychiatric treatment, and in many cases the fact was known to the scientology staff before being accepted for processing and training, after which a significant number of these are ended up receiving psychiatric treatment in State mental hospitals.

Subject: Re: Scientology's Danger to Mental Health
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
From: dst@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky)
Message-ID: <43cdb7f7$1@news2.lightlink.com>
Date: 17 Jan 2006 22:37:27 -0500

In article <1137552530.919937.259790@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, <olihilyu@yahoo.com> wrote:

>One of the worst aspects of Scientology is that its practitioners
>almost entirely lack any medical knowledge, and are unable to discern
>in a preclear symptoms which would indicate to a medical practitioner
>the need for medical attention.

Visit the PerkinsTragedy.org web site to see Scientology's quack medical practices in action.

Jeremy Perkins was an unmedicated paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed to death the woman who was "treating" him with vitamins and exercise, just like Tom Cruise said to do. She was a long-time Scientologist, an OT4 and the most accomplished and popular auditor at the Buffalo Org.

She was also his mother.

-- Dave Touretzky: "There is no science in Scientology." http://PerkinsTragedy.org

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