La Scientologie a-t-elle fait du bien dans le monde ?

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…