The World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE), a front group for Scientology, targets dentists and chiropractors in particular for financial reasons, having had some success penetrating these professions.

WISE uses antiquated management by statistics techniques that are still used in the Church of Scientology. Management by statistics was in vogue around the time Hubbard adopted it; he did not invent it. The use of statistics and data for management decisions is broadly used (e.g., data-driven decisions, and the DIKW paradigm in which data –> information –> knowledge –> wisdom), but not in the rote, narrow sense that Hubbard followers still use it.

Once part of WISE, some practices have tried to force Scientology training on their employees, resulting in lawsuits.

Money and recruitment seem to be the main motivations. Scientology gives incentives to WISE members such as commissions on new people recruited into Scientology (10% commission I think) and probably gives discounts to WISE members themselves.

Hubbard set up several vectors of thrust into society:
1. Personal dissemination and recruitment using a bogus personality test to “find” someone’s “ruin.”
2. Narconon to capture those who feel prey to drugs.
3. Criminon to work with criminals.
4. WISE and other fronts to penetrate businesses.
5. Illegal activities to penetrate government.
6. Human rights groups to give Scientology legitimacy.
7. Unlawful or at least objectionable activities to squash critics including “noisy” investigations on public officials.
8. Celebrity Centers to recruit high profile members from film and arts.
9. Harassment by frivolous lawsuits (as one example, Scientology’s takeover of the formerly legitimate Cult Awareness Network).
10. And more.

What does this all boil down to?
1. Get people and their money when they are vulnerable — fighting drugs, a criminal offense, life crises, etc.
2. Get people and their money when they are successful opinion leaders — movie stars, celebrities, business owners, etc.
3. Make everyone who might be a critic shut up — using the legal system as well as harassment and unlawful activities.

That’s Hubbard’s business model in a nutshell.

Back to chiropractic: As an alternative or complementary practice outside the umbrella of standard Western medicine and scientific research, the profession may be inherently receptive to non-mainstream ideas, with some chiropractors (in my anecdotal experience) primed to believe that the AMA suppresses knowledge and tries to harm their profession. They may therefore feel a kinship with Scientology’s claims of being harassed by the AMA, FDA, psychs, etc. Scientology, adept at exploiting any and all openings it may find, might then use this supposed kinship to recruit members.

First time I’ve seen it and I echo OSD, brought tears to my eyes. THAT should be a Super Bowl Ad!

Today Jon Atack comment is much better .. because he describes his view on auditing .. so the delivering part of the cherch ..

What I will say here for my own is very simply .. I did always wonder how a person can recall several million or billion years ago .. when he can not remember 10 days back .. so he can remember what he has eaten for breakfast 165.088.457 years ago at a monday morning of the second day of the year .. wonderful .. LRH did claim that he can do that .. he claimed that he can recall every moment of his whole track ..

So he can say that he eat the outer shelf of a grouphe tree with triathy pumpeline ..

I can never get over the fact of sometimes standing in front of the refrigerator with the door open staring inside and realising I haven’t a clue why I’m there. Leads me drink more beer that way.

James Beard Foundation is a real thing. What you have to examine more closely is “proceeds.” That’s probably 3% of the take, after expenses. Expenses are the 97% sent to the owner of Scientology for licensing fees.