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Scientology front group, NarCONon, appropriates wog science

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Interesting. Most of you probably already know that NarCONon drug rehab organization is a scientology offshoot that bases its treatments in L. Ron Hubbard's claptrap. You probably also know that scientology on the whole disparages and demonizes "wog" science in favor of said claptrap, and that the cult is quite dogmatic in sticking to whatever Hubbard wrote, regardless of evidence to the contrary.

So I was a bit surprised to see this cult front group appropriating wog science in publishing this article on addiction:

http://www.narconon.org/blog/narconon/social-isolation-leads-to-substance-addiction/

Nothing of L. Ron's deluded garbage in there, and yet wog science is not what is used for treatment in the Narconon rehab centers.

Anything to lure in unsuspecting marks - even pretending to use actual science!
 
The key issue here, in my opinion, if ripping off insurance companies for the money for drug re-hab. They tried to get money out of my sister before she died. Knowing this sister, though, I am fair certain she had an angle to scam them while they were trying to scam her.
 
There are several red flags here.
1. WOT on that site https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/narconon.org?utm_source=addon&utm_content=rw-viewsc says it is a scam.
2.The research was done at the College of Natural Sciences in Austin, Texas, but the results were publish in a newspaper in India?? Not by a science journal. Shows that the research cannot be trusted.

I would want a lot more research done before I would trust these results.
 
I think it's pretty established at this point that The "Church" Which Must Not Be Named(c) adopts whatever is convenient to spread the scam.
 
Wow, that was from Faulty Towers. Great BBC sitcom. There were not too many episodes of that before John Cleese went on to do Monty Python. I was surprised to here the N bomb dropped.
 
Malintent said:
Wow, that was from Faulty Towers. Great BBC sitcom. There were not too many episodes of that before John Cleese went on to do Monty Python.
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Monty Python was first. In fact, the character of Basil Fawlty was inspired by the manager of a hotel the Python cast stayed at during filming.

According to Prunella Scales, they stopped making Fawlty Towers when John Cleese and his wife were no longer mad about the experience. They'd vented their spleens.
 
Malintent said:
Wow, that was from Faulty Towers. Great BBC sitcom. There were not too many episodes of that before John Cleese went on to do Monty Python. I was surprised to here the N bomb dropped.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was first from 1969 to 1974 Then Faulty Towers started in 1975 to 1979 Before the Race Relations Act pretty much anything went.

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hylidae said:
Interesting. Most of you probably already know that NarCONon drug rehab organization is a scientology offshoot that bases its treatments in L. Ron Hubbard's claptrap. You probably also know that scientology on the whole disparages and demonizes "wog" science in favor of said claptrap, and that the cult is quite dogmatic in sticking to whatever Hubbard wrote, regardless of evidence to the contrary.

So I was a bit surprised to see this cult front group appropriating wog science in publishing this article on addiction:

http://www.narconon.org/blog/narconon/social-isolation-leads-to-substance-addiction/

Nothing of L. Ron's deluded garbage in there, and yet wog science is not what is used for treatment in the Narconon rehab centers.

Anything to lure in unsuspecting marks - even pretending to use actual science!
Click to expand...

It's all about self-improvement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7AihnLbw1E
 
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