Why they hate psychiatry

The "Church" of Scientology's long-standing feud with psychiatry is explained here. To make a long story short, it stems from L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics - which premiered in a pulp sci-fi magazine, and serves as a kind of founding text for Scientology - being dismissed as blatant quackery by the mental health profession just after it was released in 1950. (via Let it Bleed)

That's not to say there aren't legitimate criticisms of the psychiatric profession. But the likes of Tom Cruise and Kelly Preston are just blindly mouthing Scientology propaganda, and it's good to see Cruise being called on it during interviews to promote War of the Worlds. (Matt Lauer is lucky Cruise didn't shoot lasers from his hands, like he did with the late Oprah Winfrey.)

Posted by damian at June 26, 2005 04:12 PM | TrackBack