E-Meter

The E-Meter works in a similar way to a Lie detector and like a lie detector it’s sometimes wrong. The subject holds tin cans while the auditor reads the dial to find out the subject’s reactions. The subject, pre-clear in Scientology jargon may grip the tin cans that are part of the E-Meter more tightly or develop measurable skin reactions when stressed. Sometimes the E-Meter works but other times it doesn’t.

L. Ron Hubbard insisted that the E-Meter is infallible and for Scientologists L. Ron Hubbard was infallible, therefore Scientologists imagine the E-Meter is accurate all the time.

The E-Meter is reliable in one way only. Reliably the E-Meter gets suckers to pay out yet more money to the Scientology cult. E-Meters that cost $12.50 to build were sold for in $162; in 1963. Since then prices have of course risen.

References and external links

 * "The E-Meter sees all, knows all. It is never wrong."
 * The Scandals of Scientology, the E-Meter