PseudoScientology

Writes about the Tom Cruise/Scientology connection …

Part 1 — CSI and the Wrath of Cruise, the beginning

Part 2 — CSI and the Wrath of Cruise, part 2

Part 3 — CSI and the Wrath of Cruise, part 3

I spent two semesters researching the story and truth behind the religion of Scientology, its very famous and controversial leader L. Ron Hubbard and the many celebrities who could be found on the membership roster of CSI. Tom Cruise stuck out to me back then because of his larger than life personality, which I found interesting that it would be so easily led by a religion, and the many many rumors of his “real” private life. While doing research, which was incredibly hands on, I met with various members of the church, as well as figures within the entertainment industry and it became more obvious to me that Mr. Cruise had a much larger role within the hierarchy of the religion than we were being led to believe.

In “The Medical Messiahs,” James Young (1916-2006) rightly details the many outright fraudulent practices that have given false hope to a public desperately seeking relief or a partial cure of their health problems. His book provides some fascinating insights into why people are duped into accepting the promise of something which by all scientific, logical or other proofs is completely without merit. The following excerpts offer an explanation about “why” people have accepted quackery and will continue to do so, in spite of all logic and proof to the contrary. This is as true of adherents to Scientology as much as those who are looking for the latest medical “cure.” Read and ponder.

The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America
James Harvey Young, PhD
Princeton Univ Press (June 1992) (more…)