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What’s Inside a $5,000 Scientology E-Meter?

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The E-Meter (also electropsychometer and Hubbard Electrometer) is an electronic device used in Scientology that allegedly "registers emotional reactions". After claims by L. Ron Hubbard that the procedures of auditing, which used the E-Meter, could help heal diseases, the E-Meter became the subject of litigation. Since then, the Church of Scientology publishes disclaimers declaring that the E-Meter "by itself does nothing", is incapable of improving health, and is used solely for spiritual purposes.

The medical establishment had been watching Hubbard's enterprises since 1951, when the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners prosecuted the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation (Elizabeth, New Jersey) for practicing medicine without a license. In 1958, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seized and destroyed 21,000 Dianazene tablets from Hubbard's Distribution Center Inc., charging that they were falsely labeled as a treatment for radiation sickness.

On January 4, 1963, in service of an FDA complaint, more than 100 US marshals and deputized longshoremen with drawn guns[66] raided the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C., and confiscated more than three tons of property, including 5,000 books, 2,900 booklets, and several hundred E-meters. The FDA accused the Church of making false medical claims that the E-meters could treat physical and mental illnesses. The FDA also charged that the meters did not bear adequate directions for treating the conditions for which they were recommended.

The Church claimed that they had not written any publication that the E-meter could or would heal anything and sued to get the property back. Years of litigation ensued. In the first trial beginning on April 3, 1967, the jury found that the Church misrepresented the E-meter, and the judge ordered the confiscated materials destroyed. However, in 1969 the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed the verdict; the Church, it said, had made substantial showing that Scientology is a religion and the government had done nothing to rebut the claim.

In October 2009, a three-judge panel at the Correctional Court in Paris convicted the church and six of its members of organized fraud. The Court's decision followed a three-week trial, where two plaintiffs alleged they were defrauded by the organization. One plaintiff's complaint involved the use of an E-Meter by Scientologists with medical implications. This plaintiff claimed that, after being audited with the device, she was encouraged to pay tens of thousands of euros for vitamins, books, and courses to improve her condition. She argued that amounted to fraud. The Court agreed, and the ruling was upheld on appeal in 2013.

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Commence Streisand Effect

Cuz, you know, religion.

L. Ron Hubbard’s literary organization told the U.S. copyright office that it didn’t support DMCA exemptions for repairing personal electron

"A totally unreasonable proposal."

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This is my meter. There are many like it but this one is mine.

1996 Mark VII Hubbard E-Meter (galvanometer), lightly used. Works perfectly, holds a charge, but airport security broke the label off 😡

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"Decommissioning the E-Meter," a Ritual Action Banishing by Martin Chittum. Action performed on February 17, 2019 in an undisclosed location in rural NY. Thi...

Posted up video documentation of one of my Ritual Actions. Working hard the past few weeks to get a completely new and redesigned entropyandchaos website up; hope to have it finished soon.

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Scientology E-Meter; “Super Quantum Mark VII”. Powered it up today and fully functioning in near perfect condition. Soon I will decommission it by blasting a hole through it with a high powered handgun. Consider this to be a piece in progress.

That nice copy of Dianetics will become part of another piece.