Scientology has absolutely nothing to do with actual science. (No duh.)

Science requires use of the scientific method: observation, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis under controlled conditions to find out if it is accurate and stands up to attempts to disprove it, observing the results, and forming a conclusion (i.e. modifying the hypothesis based on the results of the test). If a hypothesis is correct, then if somebody were to test it again, the results would end up the same, thus supporting the hypothesis and eventually resulting in a "theory."

Scientology doesn't do any of this. So how is it that they feel they can themselves members of the science community?

Fancy words! (My hypothesis that people will think you're smarter if you use fancy words now stands supported.)

Scientology uses lots of books that have fancy words in them, and we all know that if a book has fancy words in it, it MUST be right! In fact, their words are so fancy, that you have to buy a special Scientology dictionary just to figure out what they mean. They use fancy words used by people who already have reputations for being smart. But they also make up their own fancy words. Brilliant!!!

(Then they get celebrities to join and talk about how it changed their life, but if you want to learn about it, it's going to cost you $. You have to pay for books, study-at-home-courses, classes, etc. And if you have to pay lots of money for it, then, of course, it must really really REALLY work! But that's another post.)

So let us pay homage to Scientology's brilliant use of fancy words to manipulate the masses and convince people to give their life savings to an organization that doesn't even show up in the Charity Navigator directory by using one of their very own made-up fancy words:

Enturbulation: a state of disruption and agitation
(You can also use it as a verb "enturbulate" or an adjective "enturbulated").

Example: My stomach has been seriously enturbulated since I drank that bad java. Let's never buy that coffee again.

Use it in a sentence today and watch your perceived IQ grow.

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