And our public tax dollars support many of them through programs like state-level Medicaid programs, which dole out millions of dollars to providers delivering quack (non-evidence-based) "therapies." Not only does it waste money, but it wastes valuable developmental time for children who could otherwise be receiving therapies that actually work.

As you may guess, this is personal for me and quite a sore point. I've watched families choose "therapies" delivered by persuasive practitioners, who in the end deliver nothing, but they do collect substantial income.

And every time I ask for evidence, I get only testimonials.

And testimonials are worthless or worse than worthless when it comes to medicine.

Again, this is personal. I've watched state level bureaucrats approve funding for programs that have absolutely no efficacy, and their superiors sign off on it because people don't want to engage in the fight. It's a tragedy.

Scientology makes many provably false claims. They make the claim that you can sweat toxins out of your body by ingesting vitamins in a sauna. They claim many false things about psychiatry.

So yes, Scientology does a lot of advertising in the MSM and clearly makes pseudoscientific claims in it's promotional materials and literature.

Here is an advert. for an organization that makes fraudulent claims. -