durham:
Please cite specifically what scientific journals published peer reviewed research confirming any theory of L. Ron Hubbard.
Be very specific by citing the publication, date of publication, researchers etc.
Making a claim without substantiating it specifically is meaningless.
Once again, let's review what medical ans scientific experts have said about the purification rundown concocted by Hubbard.
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"Prof Michael Ryan, head of the pharmacology department at UCD, said he could not find any evidence to support the claims in the church's documents about the course.
"To suggest it could get rid of radiation and toxic compounds was not supported by scientific facts, he said.
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Two members of the state physician's board are questioning whether a health-food store with ties to Scientology is practicing medicine illegally by offering a church-sanctioned vitamin regimen.
Ronald Gots, who works for the International Center for Toxicology and Medicine in Rockville, Md., said "I think it's scientifically fallacious to say that you can remove toxic substances from the body this way...Materials stored in fat are not going to be removed in the sweat. It makes no sense."
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In a 1988 report, Dr. Ronald E. Gots, a toxicology expert from Bethesda, Md., called the regimen "quackery," and noted that "no recognized body of toxicologists, no department of occupational medicine, nor any governmental agencies endorse or recommend such treatment." The report ended Shreveport's dealings with the program. In an interview yesterday, Dr. Gots said of the program, "It's an unproven, scientifically bereft notion."
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"In its reporting, The Chronicle found that Narconon's lectures often taught students information that is widely dismissed by mainstream medical experts. This includes that drugs -- including ecstasy, LSD and marijuana -- accumulate indefinitely in body fat, where they cause recurring drug cravings for months or years; drugs in fat cause flashbacks even years after the user quits; the vitamin niacin pulls drugs from fat, and saunas sweat them from the body; and colored ooze is produced when drugs exit the body."
"Bascom and San Francisco schools chief Arlene Ackerman had asked Heilig to evaluate Narconon after The Chronicle published articles in June and July showing that its anti-drug instruction rests on concepts that mainstream medical experts generally reject but are embraced by the Church of Scientology."
Hubbard's theories that form the basis for the rundown "often exemplifies the outdated, non-evidence-based and sometimes factually inaccurate approach" concluded Steve Heilig, director of health and education for the San Francisco Medical Society.
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Fireman's Union in NYC dumps purification rundown
"Our doctors went down there and checked it out," said Deputy Commissioner Frank Gribbon. "Their opinion was this was not a detoxification program. We don't endorse it."
Dr. Kerry Kelly, the chief medical officer for the Fire Department, said she has seen no "objective evidence" She said "The essence of their program is you stay in it until you suddenly wake up and say, ‘I feel great,'" she said. "It's hard to have faith in a program like that." She added, "I have trouble believing in these purple-stained towels."
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"I've talked with several psychotropic pharmacologists - specialists in psychotropic drugs like LSD," said Michael Glade, a doctor with the American College of Nutrition and coordinator of the college's Council on Endocrinology and Minerals. "None of them thinks there's very much of any psychotropic drug stored in fat. So there isn't much to release in the first place. And if you're going to say that someone is going to go on an LSD trip from burning or releasing LSD stored in their fat tissues, those people would have died long before of an LSD overdose" since the volumes originally ingested would have been huge.
Hubbard himself was no scientist, just a science fiction author. In his public writings, Hubbard never explained how he conducted his studies: how many subjects he used or whether he had a control group data a trained scientist would be expected to provide.
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"In my capacity of scientific advisor to Socialstyrelsen [National Board of Health and Welfare] I have been asked to make a statement regarding the detoxification program for drug addicts by the use of, among other things, vitamins and sauna that is practised within Narconon. I have been asked to answer as many as possible of the following subproblems:
1. Can this method of detoxification be considered to conform to scientific standards and medical experience? ["vetenskap och beprovad erfarenhet"]
2. Could this method risk the health of the client?
3. Could this method lead to permanent damage?
4. Should this program be prohibited?
5. May medical doctors prescribe the stated doses of vitamins; if so, on what indications?"
"There is no documentation to show that the Hubbard method of detoxification…conforms to scientific standards and medical experience.” And that “the risks and side effects of the treatment method have also not been evaluated in a serious way.”
The evidence, research and documentation is overwhelming regarding Hubbard's bogus theories. He was a Sci-fi writer, not a doctor or scientist.
Again, you can only accept Hubbard through faith and offer your relgious testimony that it works according to your subjective experience.
But the experts rely on objective facts, not anecdotal stories and testimonies of faith.
The level of influence Scientology has apparently gained over your ability to think independently, critically and objectevely is scary.
Exposing pseudo-science and unsafe treatments is not "intolerance" it's called hard science and the job of the experts involved to protect the public from potential harm.
Scientology has chosen to make outlandish public claims regarding its effectiveness and others have a right to respond.
You really seemed to have swallowed Scientology "hook, line and sinker."
Thankfully, there is plenty of information available from news services, within libraries and most importanly made readily accessible through the Internet to demonstrate that Scientology has hurt people and how it has hurt people.
You may not wish to accept that hard evidence and instead engage in denial, but thinking people free of Scientology's influence can access that information and evaluate for themselves.
This is why Scientology has fought so hard to keep information off the Internet. However, in the process of fighting against free speech for its own interests Scientology has helped to ultimately establish more freedom of expression on the Insternet.