The Citizen Commission on Human Rights caught lying

Howard University Cancels Scientology's Anti-Psychiatry Exhibit November 1, 2006. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an anti-psychiatry hate group run by the Church of Scientology, will not be allowed to put on its touring exhibit, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death", at Howard University this month. Located in Washington, DC, Howard is one of the nation's leading historically black universities. The exhibit had been scheduled for November 20-26 at the Armour J. Blackburn Center on Howard's campus. Although the university was only renting space to CCHR, not co-sponsoring the exhibit as CCHR had falsely claimed(1), university administrators realized that providing a forum for CCHR's outrageous misrepresentations would be a disservice to their students. If CCHR is to be believed, the Howard University Medical School Department of Psychiatry — like all departments of psychiatry — is a haven for greedy drug pushers acting in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry, and cruel sadists who torture patients with lobotomies and electric shocks. CCHR's propaganda, defaming the university's medical professionals and discouraging students from seeking mental health services when needed, has no place at an institution of higher learning. Howard's decision comes three days after the CBS News program 48 Hours Mystery ran a story on CCHR and the death of Elli Perkins. Perkins, a Scientologist, was stabbed to death in 2003 by her adult son, Jeremy, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia(2). Due to her Scientology beliefs reinforced by CCHR's anti-psychiatry propaganda, Perkins had refused to allow her son to receive medical treatment that could have quieted his delusions and prevented her tragic death. (1) see http://PerkinsTragedy.org/archive/cchr-howard-univ-2006.jpg (2) see http://PerkinsTragedy.org, and http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml Dr. David S. Touretzky Research Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15123-3891

"AJ Simkatu", Nov. 12th, 2006:

For some reason my e-mail program wasn't checking my e-mail over the last week, but I just discovered that my letters to the faculty and administration on 10/29 were very much appreciated by a number of people at Howard Univ. I received 3 personal responses from Howard Univ. administrators and faculty.  They promised to take action, and they weren't kidding, because apparently it didn't take more than 2 days for Howard Univ. to tell Scientology to shove it. They weren't happy that Scientology was lying about their relationship.

[Source: alt.religion.scientology newsgroup]