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• bryanSmith0 8y ago
  Read it again. You are equating scientology and dianetics to charlatanism, not the author of the inital reply. He/She simply stated "x is like y". Why did you flag my other responses, which correctly pointed out that you are the one making the fallacy of guilt by association, not the author?
• sonnyblarney 8y ago
  No, I did not accuse the doctors of charlatanism. I said there was an obvious relationship between some of the underpinnings of Dianetics and what is described in this article. This is patently obvious to anyone who's read Dianetics, and the article. I don't support Dianetics overall as anything reasonable because it's mostly rubbish, but again, some of the ideas expressed in there are nary identical to what is described in the article, which is just a fact. Not everything is black and white: a lot of current psychology is scientifically rubbish, and a lot of ideas postulated in the past by not-so-straight people are at least interesting, and may have shades of validity.