money being poured into the coffers of a very few. Otherwise?
efficacious as it claims to be as regards improving the abilities of its adherents (“making the able more able”), it has been around for quite long enough to enable its devotees to make more than just a few major discoveries in the sciences or medicine, or publish some elegant philosophical insights, or to make important contributions to literature or the arts. Ask yourself how many Nobel prizewinners are scientologists.