Silverfox: "I most certainly am aware. His problem, was that he was not honest."

How does Monsieur Silverfox determine if someone 'is honest'?"

Silverfox knows that one who is wise will be able to discriminate between an ....ology and its human progenitor(s). As best I can make out, Scientology, which to my mind is in many of its tenets irrational, but nonetheless alluringly logical, was created by the attempts of Hubbard to finance the institutionalization of the techniques of Dianetics. These he had had invented, or had success with, in helping traumatized United States Vets returning from the Pacific Theatre of WWII, of which in the period 1942-45 there was a plentiful supply.

His work caused him to run afoul of professional psychiatrists, many -- if not most -- of whom in those days practised extremely invasive techniques, e.g. electro-convulsive shock and brain lobotomies -- techniques that are now almost, but not completely, discontinued and which, in any case, are today widely discredited as unconscienably coercive.

The profession of psychiatry is based on the insights, and also presumptions, of Freud. In Freud's case his presumptions amounted, one may cogently claim, to him feeling himself to be the only sane person on the planet as a consequence of a clientele quite different from Hubbard's. One may decide for him/herself by reading the written correspondence between Freud and Carl Jung, the Swiss medical doctor and psychotherapist who was slightly Freud's junior.

The honesty of any person can be questioned. Cyanidefreak, for example, considers all scientists to be dishonest, which would, by the way, include Remi, professionally, and also me (although I elected not to practise the profession of engineering on which I started out from Cambridge, where I studied mechanical and nuclear science; and engineering was the educational start of Hubbard).

But an accusation of dishonesty is often an outcome of an emotion of incredulity "sitting" on a long-term locked/closed mindset (mood) of suspicion. Only purported mindreaders claim otherwise. To establish it as true is much harder than merely making a cavalier remark to that effect, but there are ways.