PREFATORY NOTE

There are some features of scientology which are so ludicrous
that there may be a tendency to regard scientology as silly
and its practitioners as harmless cranks. To do so would be
gravely to misunderstand the tenor of the Board's conclusions.
This Report should be read, it is submitted, with these
prefatory observations constantly in mind. Scientology is
evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to
the community, medically, morally and socially; and its
adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill.

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Charlatanism is a necessary price of religious freedom.