Dianetics is the main support in the house of cards that is Scientology. Remove Dianetics and everything else falls apart. The Skeptic’s Dictionary completely annihilates Dianetics.

Another indication that dianetics is not a science, and that its founder hasn’t a clue as to how science functions, is given in claims such as the following: “Several theories could be postulated as to why the human mind evolved as it did, but these are theories, and dianetics is not concerned with structure” (Hubbard, 69). This is his way of saying that it doesn’t concern him that engrams can’t be observed, that even though they are defined as permanent changes in cells, they can’t be detected as physical structures. It also doesn’t bother him that the cure of all illnesses requires that these “permanent” engrams be “erased” from the reactive bank. He claims that they aren’t really erased but simply transferred to the standard bank. How this physically or structurally occurs is apparently irrelevant. He simply asserts that it happens this way, without argument and without proof. He simply repeats that this is a scientific fact, as if saying it makes it so.

Once the truck that hauls the bullshit breaks down, the bullshit cannot be delivered.

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