Churchill
Gold Meritorious Patron
I've been meaning to explore Scientology's Holocaust Denial for some time, because the "scholarship" and "facts" advanced by Scientology are so faulty and yet
have been carefully crafted to advance a very dishonest thesis, namely that Psychiatry was responsible for the Holocaust.
Deborah Lipstadt, a pre-eminent historian, and author of Denying the Holocaust, has termed Scientology's claims regarding the Holocaust "despicable", and "as a form of "soft-core" denial
because it's a whitewash of those who were truly responsible for it."
Following Hubbard's dictum to "always attack, never defend", Scientology's Guardians Office formed a front group, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in the late '60's.
Two Psychiatrists, Thomas Szasz, and Peter Breggin were enlisted and cultivated as allies in Scientology's massive PR campaign efforts to:
1. Deflect criticism away from Scientology's myriad abuses and failures as a "science of Mental Health."
2. Demonize the subject of Psychiatry, and portray Psychiatrists as corrupt, lobotomizing, electro-shocking, pill pushers, joined at the hip with the Pharmaceutical companies to make money, not to help people.
3. Position Psychiatry as being the prime force responsible for the Holocaust.
The irony, of course, is that Scientology has spent many millions of dollars over 4 decades employing the Big Lie Propaganda Technique that Hitler, himself advocated in Mein Kampf.
Psychiatry, Medicine, Physics, Biology, Industry, and Religion were all supportive of the Third Reich.
See http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/6/1/8 for an accurate examination of German Psychiatry's crimes.
Psychiatry in the US, Canada, and elsewhere dissented greatly from the Nazification of Psychiatry under Hitler.
Likewise, the corruptions in the field of Medicine, as practiced by non-Psychiatric Medical Doctors (most infamously conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele) under the Nazi's are discussed at length here:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nazi_experiments.html
The barbarity of these acts by German Physicians,not only Psychiatrists, is irrefutable evidence of Scientology's Big Lie.
To be continued...
have been carefully crafted to advance a very dishonest thesis, namely that Psychiatry was responsible for the Holocaust.
Deborah Lipstadt, a pre-eminent historian, and author of Denying the Holocaust, has termed Scientology's claims regarding the Holocaust "despicable", and "as a form of "soft-core" denial
because it's a whitewash of those who were truly responsible for it."
Following Hubbard's dictum to "always attack, never defend", Scientology's Guardians Office formed a front group, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in the late '60's.
Two Psychiatrists, Thomas Szasz, and Peter Breggin were enlisted and cultivated as allies in Scientology's massive PR campaign efforts to:
1. Deflect criticism away from Scientology's myriad abuses and failures as a "science of Mental Health."
2. Demonize the subject of Psychiatry, and portray Psychiatrists as corrupt, lobotomizing, electro-shocking, pill pushers, joined at the hip with the Pharmaceutical companies to make money, not to help people.
3. Position Psychiatry as being the prime force responsible for the Holocaust.
The irony, of course, is that Scientology has spent many millions of dollars over 4 decades employing the Big Lie Propaganda Technique that Hitler, himself advocated in Mein Kampf.
Psychiatry, Medicine, Physics, Biology, Industry, and Religion were all supportive of the Third Reich.
See http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/6/1/8 for an accurate examination of German Psychiatry's crimes.
Psychiatry in the US, Canada, and elsewhere dissented greatly from the Nazification of Psychiatry under Hitler.
Likewise, the corruptions in the field of Medicine, as practiced by non-Psychiatric Medical Doctors (most infamously conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele) under the Nazi's are discussed at length here:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nazi_experiments.html
The barbarity of these acts by German Physicians,not only Psychiatrists, is irrefutable evidence of Scientology's Big Lie.
To be continued...
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