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The manner in which Indian-origin psychiatrist, Raj Persaud, was suspended for misconduct has become controversial – after it emerged that the complaints of plagiarism against him were brought by a Church of Scientology front-group the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) which is intensely hostile to Psychiatry. Persaud – a high-profile psychiatrist known across Britain for his frequent television and radio appearances – was barred from practicing Psychiatry for three months by the regulatory General Medical Council (GMC) after he admitted to plagiarizing the works of other academics in newspaper articles and a book. However, it has emerged that the complaint to the GMC was not brought by any of the academics whose work Persaud had plagiarized – but by the Scientology organization which is hostile to his profession. The church of Scientology, founded in 1952 by American science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard, considers psychiatry to be useless at helping people cope with psychological disorders. This is because the church teaches that all of our fears, anxieties and diseases are caused by the parasitic ghosts of dead aliens and these dead aliens can only be removed by Scientology. In addition, the Church teaches its followers that psychiatry was responsible for World War I, the rise of Hitler and Stalin, the decline in education standards in the United States, the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the September 11 attacks. The Churchs point of view on these issues is …
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