“It may be easy to dismiss Tom Cruise’s recent outbursts against psychiatry as the ravings of an egomaniacal celebrity. Comedians have certainly had a field day with Cruise, a fervent disciple of the Church of S*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*y, ever since he scolded Brooke Shields for taking prescribed medication to treat her postpartum depression and lectured Matt Lauer, host of the ‘Today’ show, that psychiatry was a ‘pseudoscience’ and antidepressant drugs were worthless because there is ‘no such thing as a chemical imbalance.’ ‘No?’ wisecracked Lewis Black on ‘The Daily Show,’ watching a video clip of Cruise berating Lauer, ‘Then what do you call what’s happening to you right now?’

But the Church of S*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*y’s war on psychiatry is no joke. For decades, s*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*ists have maintained that the very notion of mental illness is a fraud. They base this belief on the views of s*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*y founder L. Ron Hubbard, who proclaimed that psychiatry was an evil enterprise, a form of terrorism, and the cause of crime. Now, they’re attempting to enshrine their contempt for psychiatry in laws across the country. This is the last in a four-part series chronicling the suddenly higher profile of the Church of S*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*y.” (Salon)

Stranger than fiction: “L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘D*i*a*n*e*t*i*c*s’ is a fantastically dull, terribly written, crackpot rant — it’s also the founding text of s*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*y. So, what does it actually say? This is the second in a four-part series chronicling the suddenly higher profile of the Church of S*c*i*e*n*t*o*l*o*g*y.” (Salon)