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One Flew Over The Cuckoo conference

Title: One Flew Over The Cuckoo conference
Date: Saturday, 1 January 1972
Publisher: The Realist
Author: Robert Wolf
Main source: ep.tc

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Another session was led by Bob Dobson-Smith, a hip-executive type who had given up architecture to sell Scientology. ("Okay?" )

Only seven persons showed up for his talk, and two of them left as soon as he began plotting charts all over the blackboard. (One of those who didn't attend had given his reason beforehand: "I dropped out of Scientology - 2000,000 years ago.")

Dobson-Smith didn't really need anybody else anyway: there are already ten thousand Scientologists in Toronto, he said, and fourteen million around the world. "People come to us because we can raise a person's IQ by 50-60 points."

To "invalidate" people - that is, to reject them - causes insanity, Dobson-Smith said. So, for that reason, a Scientologist "never invalidate anyone" - that is, except when it's necessary to expel someone from the organization. Dobson-Smith explained, however, that fewer and fewer people are being expelled these days, because potential dissidents are being screened out beforehand with a test for resistance.

Meanwhile, he proceeded to invalidate a few of the critics at the meeting, including one person he wrongly accused of trying to steal the mike to his tape recorder.

For reasons that are best known to him, he played a tape he had made while visiting a 19-year-old patient he knew on Ward C of nearby Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital. He had persuaded the young man to name the patients on his ward who were into sniffing "Cutex nail polish remover" and to name the patients who were homosexual. This tape Dobson-Smith then turned over to a local newspaper.

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