The author goes on and on about how wonderful Scientology is, and how it helps humanity, and how it was "researched," but never gets to the real issues.

There are major problems with this book. The first major problem is that it is wildly inaccurate on most of its scientific points. It gets biology utterly wrong; its evolutionary theory is utterly wrong; the topics of physics and chemistry are utterly wrong; the anthropology issues sited are hopelessly wrong... it's as if the author had no knowledge on the subjects, but wrote about them anyhow.

If the author is that wrong about issues of common knowledge, why should the reader accept what he wrote about issues not of common knowledge?

Another major problem with the book is that it preaches a code of conduct that in my personal experience is not practiced by the Scientologists I have associated with (which has been mostly "staff" at their various "missions" and franchises).

Since reading the book I have also done research on Scientology via the internet, and discovered the reasons why this book is so flawed: the author spent about four weeks "researching" this book even though it claims he did over 30 years of "research."

I feel like I have been cheated, defrauded, and lied to by this book and its author. Why someone would rate this book higher that "1 star" is a vast mystery to me. It belongs in the trash, not on someone's bookshelf.

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