Customers who corrupt product using Amazon ’s ‘ grin ’ feature are now able to donate a pct of each purchase to the Church of Scientology ’s controversial drug education programme , The Guardianreports . know as Narconon , the system surrender talks in schools in more than 20 countries , although experts have dismissed its approach as unscientific and criminate it of attempting to convert schoolchildren toScientology .
establish by L Ron Hubbard , Scientology is base upon a myth about some sort of exotic call Xenu who used atomic artillery and space volcanoes to kill a load of other aliens , which is why the Church now demand us all togive it dilute of money .
Some of that money goes towards funding an arrangement call in the Association for Better Living and Education , which run Narconon .
According to the Scientology website , Narcononbegan in an Arizona prisonin the sixties , when a radical of inmates overcame their addictions using the principles account in L Ron Hubbard ’s texts . The major premise behind the Narconon detoxification approach is that drug leave some sort of residual in human fatness cubicle , which becomes reactivated and cause cravings . The program therefore treats addiction by assay to eliminate these residues through regular sauna and a cocktail of vitamin .
Yet this possibility has been widely discredited by scientists , with the British politics ’s former senior drug policy advisorDavid Nutttelling The Guardian that this glide slope “ has no scientific validity . ”
In spite of this , Narconon claims to have delivered talk to more than 22,000 baby in school across the UK . critic say they have only been capable to do this because the political science does not invest in any other teaching materials regarding addiction , and with Narconon offer to provide this military service for free , the system has become the only option for most schools .
In a late consultation with theEvening Standard , Nutt explained that “ We have know for years that Scientologists have been point schooling through drugs education packages . They are the main supplier of teaching aids to schools , as neither government nor local authority put any money into this topic . It ’s an outrage . ”
Meanwhile , David Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University also separate the newsprint that Narconon ’s drug education program is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to convert young people to Scientology .
counter this criticism , Narconon has fundedseveral of its own studies , all of which suggest that its methods are highly efficient at combatting substance abuse .
Amazon Smile , which lets client donate to take charities , now include Narconon ’s US and UK headquarters on its list of large-hearted organizations .
[ H / T : The Guardian ]
