Voir aussi : Scientological

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Dérivé de scientology, avec le suffixe -ical.

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  1. Scientologique.
    • 1915-1966 : "scientological records" means any record, document or register or any gramophone record, wire, tape or other thing by which words or sounds uttered or made by any particular person in the course of the practice or application — (South Australia, Acts of the Parliament of South Australia, Government Printer, South Africa, 1969)
    • Further on M. Mazur considers the usefulness of the morphology of science for defining the priorities of scientological groups of problems. — (D. REIDEL, SCIENCE of SCIENCE, 1983)
    • Usually the following are studied in scientological research: (a) changes in the rates and amount of research financing; (b) changes of the staff engaged in science, and (c) the rate of growth in publications or the dynamics of information flows. — (Science of Science, Volume 6 ; Volumes 21 à 23, Ossolineum, 1986)
    • A note about scientological dictionaries 14 4.3.1. The dictionary definitions Given the constant emphasis on meaning as something given in dictionaries and books, and on the need for clear and simple definitions, one would at least expect that the definitions be clear and usable. — (Harjeet Singh Gill, Semiotics of Language, Literature, and Cinema, Books Plus, 1998)
    • To join this self-defining elite, supplicants had to undergo a form of brain-washing known as dianetics, auditing their past traumas and becoming 'clears' who could participate fully in scientological practice. — (Nicholas Russell, Communicating Science: Professional, Popular, Literary, Cambridge University Press, 2010)
    • Its website (www.cchr.org) indisputably reflects scientological thinking, as demonstrated in its 'quick facts' about psychiatry: 'While posing as “authorities” on the mind and mental health, psychiatry has no scientific basis for any of its treatments or methods. — (Alan Aldridge, Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, 12 avril 2013)