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Dianetics - a science or pseudoscience?
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... TOK ASSIGNMENT Dianetics - a science or pseudoscience? Dianetics, developed by Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, the father of Scientology, has been subject to an intense debate as to whether it may be called a proper science. Hubbard has often been accused for being a pseudoscientist and for having developed a pseudoscience. However, to validate these charges one has to define the term 'pseudoscience'. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas put forth as scientific when they are not scientific1. In 1950 Hubbard published a book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health2. In this book, which is considered as the 'bible' for Scientology, he claims that he has discovered a "single source of mental derangement". Furthermore Hubbard tells the reader that dianetics "...contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psycho-somatic ills, with assurance of complete cure...." Hubbard continues by informing us about his
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