Recently Tom Cruise was successful in getting in a few plugs for Scientology while being interviewed in People magazine - indeed, some have claimed that his doing the interview was conditioned on being permitted to promote Scientology. Whatever the case, Tom Cruise asserted that Scientology helped cure his dyslexia - but is there any substance to this?

ScientologyWatch quotes a news report as saying:

[T]he International Dyslexia Association has hit back at his claims, insisting his statements are unscientific. Executive director J. Thomas Viall says, "When an individual of the prominence of Tom Cruise makes statements that are difficult to replicate in terms of what science tells us, the issue becomes what other individuals who are dyslexic do in response to such a quote-unquote success story. There is not a lot of science to support the claims that the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard are appropriate to overcoming dyslexia."

So, Tom Cruise is promoting unscientific nonsense that goes under the name "Scientology"? Shocking!

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