Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology An Introduction And Overview

 

I have prepared a five part series of posts on the Scientology cult evaluated against the BITE model developed by Steven Hassan. In the first post I quote the entire BITE model and introduce the work of Steven Hassan with several quotes.

In each of the following posts I take on one part of the model and evaluate Scientology against it.  I collected all five posts here so it's easy to read them in order.

I feel the end result is a deep analysis of both Scientology and the BITE model as well.

Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 1 The BITE Model
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Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 2 Behavior Control
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Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 3 Information Control
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Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 4 Thought Control
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Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 5 Emotional Control
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Note: Cult expert Rick Ross recently made the following comment on the origin of the bite model:

Rick Alan Ross  

FYI -- The BITE model is taken from other earlier sources. BITE represents B for behavior as already identified through the academic writings of Singer, Ofshe and others. I is for information as identified by Conway and Siegelman in "Snapping," which they called "Information Disease" (1978). T is for thinking identified by Lifton as thought reform (1961). And finally E is for emotional control, which was identified by Conway and Siegelman in their book "Holy Terror" (1982). I find that acknowledging and using the original material is much better, more precise and useful than spinning it with a new label without proper attribution. It's very important when writing to include footnotes that give proper credit to the originators of ideas and theories by recognizing their hard work and research.