You Gotta Get Up Pretty Early In The Morning...

...to believe the crap he's selling. I've been noticing that anyone, any Scientologist that is, who comes out of the woodworks lately to defend Scientology and Tom Cruise's recent statements, professes the same things to be true or untrue about the medical community and Scientology. Its almost like they're reading from a script...or, more likely, have been coached. On tonight's installment of Anderson Cooper 360, a Scientologist came on to defend Cruise and claim that "psychiatry is a psuedoscience" (which Cruise also said in his interview with Matt Lauer) and that "communication is the universal solvent" (which Tom Cruise said in an interview on The Early Show. The more I listen to the argument, the more I hear the same catch phrases uttered over and over again -- as if repeating these diatribes will make them true. Food for thought.

Here are some of the more interesting excerpts from The Early Show interview:

Cagle: ...Why, especially in recent years, have you become so vocal about Scientology, about psychiatry, which you're against?
Cruise: Communication is the universal solvent. That's why I talk about it. What I believe in is that people should be able to think for themselves, and they should be able to make decisions, based on information, on being informed. I don't believe that children should be forced on drugs. I think parents should be informed on the effects of these drugs.
Cagle: I think what upsets some people when you talk about this, what upset Brooke Shields, for example, is that you imply that someone's own experience with psychiatric drugs was, they were mistaken by the way it helped them; that other studies that are done that contradict what you believe are erroneous
Cruise: What do you mean?
Cagle: Other studies that show that maybe Ritalin does help some kids.
Cruise: When you see a study done, you have to look and see who did the study. When someone's on these psychiatric drugs, they have to try and step off these drugs, and I've stepped people off these drugs, Jess. They can go into seizure. All right, it's easier to step someone off heroin. It's more dangerous. They need a medical detox on these drugs.
Cagle: And yet some people have said they've taken them for a while, and then they've gotten off them, and it's helped them through a rough time.
Cruise: Jess, it's a point of, you look at something and you go OK. I've been on the other side of that, when people's lives have been torn apart, where you talk about suicides, where we're looking at now Ritalin is street drug; it's a study drug, because it's an amphetamine. Look, you don't have to believe me. I'm just saying, look at the data and where does that data come from? Now you need to evaluate" What is help, Jess? Is "help" that that person will sit there quiet? Did you really get to the root of the problem?

http://www.cbsnews.com/st/27/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main704512.shtmories/2005/06/27/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main704512.shtml