Payroll Guest, your answer makes no sense. You can't accuse me of having avoided the question when everyone can see I answered it -- at least, you can't do so without proving what I said about Scientology.

Scientology claims to make people more intelligent and better able to deal with the world, but when called upon to do so, what tactics do Scientologists pull out? Not ones that show great intelligence or even normal maturity. The fact that you can't imagine someone speaking out against Scientology for any other reason than because they're getting paid, doesn't show that someone is getting paid -- it shows that Scientology has limited your imagination. When you get a forthright answer to your question, and you act as if you didn't even notice it and talk about awaiting the "next cowardly avoidance of the answer" because you couldn't handle the answer, it shows that Scientology makes people less prepared to handle the world.

Here's something I would never do if I was getting paid to attack Scientology: I'm going to tell you how you can prove to the world that Scientology works. Scientology claims that the procedure it calls "Locational Processing" "can make a drunk person sober in a very few minutes". It would be very easy to set up an experiment where test subjects were given enough alcohol to make them drunk, and then randomly selected to receive either "Locational Processing" or just ordinary talking for a similar amount of time. After a very few minutes, all subjects would be given the standard tests of coordination. If Scientology works, then surely those who had received Locational Processing would score much better on those tests, since they have been made sober in a very few minutes.

But why hasn't it been done before? It's a simple idea that any reasonably intelligent person could come up with, and Clears are supposed to be not just reasonably intelligent but super-intelligent. Such super-intelligent people would know that this was the most effective way to bring people to Scientology: show them evidence that it works, not just accuse anyone who thinks it doesn't work of being paid off. So, if Scientology actually worked, this experiment would have been done and the results trumpeted to the world long ago.

I wonder why it hasn't been done?