Hat Scientology der Welt irgendetwas Gutes getan?

Yes, in part. Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers have gone to disasters from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to Hurricane Katrina, and the church supports drug-education, literacy and human-rights campaigns. But its best-known program, the Narconon drug rehabilitation network, rests on a detox theory that medical experts reject, and French courts convicted two of its Paris organizations of organized fraud. What good does Scientology say it does? The Church of Scientology presents a set of “social betterment” programs, all based on the…