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…

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