Dr Tim Blair was in Madison, TN

Trish, who was this dentist? I was on staff at CCNashville from 2009 to 2011 and might know him.

Mary Kahn, Yes! So true!

Losing My Religion, Yes, you’re right. SMS was just a front group to get doctors into Scn and then once in to reg them for their money, ALL of it. Your term of “always hungry locusts” describes it well.

When it comes to scientology technology one HAS to have blinders on for it to “work.”

One thing common amongst Cult is the mafia style control and abuses.
So , what it has do with technology dude 🤔

Watch all 3 parts of Godfather , it contain too much crime technique.
Maybe it’s the method employed for coercion and undue influence rebranded as technology.

Cindy. As we know the admin “tech” was written for the orgs as scn progressed over the years. Secularizing it with the idea that the world would adapt to “tech”, rather than the other way around, was very pretentious.
But the fundamental point remains that wise’s purpose was to make money and business for scn, an end in itself.
So any concept of professional ethics went to fry making everyone become an unscrupulous reg, like in the orgs – a swarm of always hungry locusts.
It is obvious that by dint of turning a vicious circle it would have bitten its tail.

J.P., I think it’s also just dated like the rest of the “tech.” People now look for things like TQM (Total Quality Management) and ISO certification, which grew out of the failures of the old industrial style management by statistics that Hubbard ‘s “work” is wedded to, typified by the Detroit auto companies and their near demise in the latter part of the last century.