Editing Scientology controversies (section)

===Brainwashing===

The Church of Scientology is frequently accused by critics of employing [[brainwashing]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Friedman |first=Roger |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351426,00.html |title=Fox New: Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology Is 'Brainwashing' by Roger Friedman, Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |publisher=Foxnews.com |access-date=2012-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101202721/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351426,00.html |archive-date=2008-11-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

One alleged example of the Church's possible brainwashing tactics is the [[Rehabilitation Project Force]], to which church staff are assigned to work off alleged wrongdoings under conditions that many critics characterize as degrading. Some of these allegations are presented in Stephen Kent's ''Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) |first=Stephen A. |last=Kent |author-link=Stephen A. Kent |date=September 13, 2000 |orig-date=November 7, 1997 |url=https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/109286/412b6fd56956a72b3b19eca2ec65beba/data/brainwashing.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825022035/https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/109286/412b6fd56956a72b3b19eca2ec65beba/data/brainwashing.pdf |archive-date=August 25, 2017 |website=[[Government of Hamburg]]}}</ref>

L. Ron Hubbard is believed to have authored ''[[Brain-Washing (book)|The Brainwashing Manual]]''.{{r|corydon|p=102ff}}{{r|andersonreport|p=84}}

====The Anderson Report====
The final results of the [[Anderson Report]] in 1965 declared:

{{blockquote |text=The Board is not concerned to find that the scientology techniques are brainwashing techniques as practiced, so it is understood, in some communist-controlled countries. Scientology techniques are, nevertheless, a kind of brainwashing...The astonishing feature of Scientology is that its techniques and propagation resemble very closely those set out in a book entitled ''Brain-washing'', advertised and sold by the [[Hubbard Association of Scientologists International|HASI]].<ref name="andersonreport"/>}}