What's Inside A Scientology E-Meter?
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2022
- I react to the "Play With Junk" channel breaking down a Scientology Mark Super 7 Quantum E-meter.
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I never got braces in the 80's, because my mom need $2500 for one of these things. I just burned it the other day along with the volunteer ministers handbook she used to keep me in a perpetual state of punishment. Very satisfying.
Damn. That's a shit situation.
Damn
How are your chompers now?
Bless you my dear.
Congratulations on the burning!
Great video! As an electrical engineer, this was as fascinating as it was infuriating. Such good components and workmanship wasted on a bullshit product.
I think that if you ranked the consumer products available today in descending order of bullshit, the e-meter would not even be in the top 500. I applaud the engineer who took this project seriously and did a good job at it. I wish more manufacturers would take cues from their workmanship.
@@stickyfox : Oh, believe me. It's podium position!
//Another electronics engineer
@@stickyfox that's hyperbole and i don't think it's very helpful as scientology is a dangerous cult that destroys peoples lives and the likes of billy the singing fish is nothing comparable to Scientologists and their evil.
And yet a god awful design. 14 trim points (and expensive ten-turn ones at that!) in a fuckin resistance bridge?? Mf it's trimmed live by the operator while it's in use, how does it need even a single adjustment? Plus an absolute ratsnest of cables and boards, this could have been a single PCB plus a modest wiring harness. It's "all hat, no cattle" engineering. They knew how to pay for expensive parts and manufacturing, not how to design with them.
@@alexisvl3253 : For the "smoke and mirrors" purpose maybe... or possibly in an atempt in making it difficult to copy and reverse engineering... But most likely just the result of a bunch of add-ons and patchwork by not so skillful people with way too much development time and budget.
Did I already say it? I'm from Switzerland not Germany. 🙂Thanks for mentioning my channel.
Great work! :)
Ich habe mich sehr über Dein Video gefreut. 😄
Gruss aus Bern.
many years go while trying to recruit me they left me alone with an older E-Meter, upon their return I had dissemble the whole thing. For my crime I was promptly thrown out of the local center.
How old were you? Sounds hilarious!
That is awesome!
@@lisamarieashby2523 it was the early seventies in New England, There was as i recall a couple of 741 op amps inside, I was not impress, They on the other hand were aghast at my lack of respect. I did not buy a book either.
@@outofturn Absolutely scandalous, you are! 😆😆😆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@@outofturn I would have done the same.
It's dressed up with more indicators, but its core is a Wheatstone bridge and a D'Arsonval meter movement. The auditor biases it to read zero and then stresses the examinee with pointed questions, which causes his/her electrical resistance to vary a tiny bit. It's a cheap/bad one-channel "lie detector."
I bet the ghost hunters would love this to get those pescky ghosts to talk. "Aunt Myra just hold the cans"
A Wheatstone Bridge is the basic circuit used in the portion of my 3M 965DSP meter that I use to perform a resistive fault locate on twisted pair telephone cable, one of the many functions of my job as a telephone cable splicing technician. If I come up with a way to make it a functional E-Meter, I will likely NOT engage in any self-auditing - I already know I am beyond economical repair. It's also worth noting that I don't have the financial means to participate in Scientology, not at the Cool Guy Level anyway.
Which they price at around $5,000, right?
@@georgiaamanatides4207 Cost $200 - $300 to manufacture.
Sells at $5000. Nothing like a little mark up for yourself.
@@georgiaamanatides4207 he clearly says this 😒
Somehow I find the idea of a religion having to update a core element of its religion 8 times to be hilarious
It's not a core element, it's just a trinket. Like cheap wine, tasteless wafers and crucifixes.
@@ChrisPBacon-vk7sj Isn't the e-meter and cans 100% required for auditing and climbing certain levels of scientology? Along with large sums of money obviously.
Say what you like about religions like Christianity but electronics, money or even attending a church is not required to learn as much as you like or even to become a Christian. We're all programed in one way or another from a very young age. I believe even if religion never existed greedy psycho types would still exist eventually finding a device or group of people to twist and manipulate thoughts, beliefs or reality to obtain wealth and power.
@@jasrob009 Exactly. I I thought it was horseobama when I was very young, too.
@@jasrob009 I think what is impressive is the gullibility of homo sapiens.
@@jasrob009 Before literacy and the printing press people were dependent on the Catholic Church to reveal the secrets of their religion
I remember Radio Shack had electonic project kits in the 1960s for kids, one of them was a simple "lie detector" that attached to two fingers and measured resistance.
At one time, they also sold a complete biofeedback monitor (galvanic skin resistance meter), with the disclaimer that it wasn't to be used as a medical diagnostic tool. I think it was about $29 in the early 1990s.
That RS kit would probably worked better than the Mark 4s and 5s of the era.
I remember those. It was one of the "red box" kits (It was assembled on a red plastic box with a clear back)
@@ronreyes9910 The 200-in-one kits also had a project, where you could make a 'lie detector'. A Wheatstone bridge, comparing the body's resistance, to the internal 5k-Ohm resistance, is slightly more sophisticated, but not $5k worth. One thing that was left unanswered, is why so many linear pots? My suspicion, is to make the scale less 'linear'. The pots might be a way of making certain 'regions' of the scale more 'sticky', adding to the 'woowoo' factor.
It's an Ohm Meter.
They are dressed up a lot more now, but I saw one in the 1980s.
It was LITERALLY a commercially available ohm meter with a different scale plate put in it.
I recognized it at the time as an Ohm meter, and it worked exactly the same.
Hold the two leads. Squeeze your fingers harder, and the needle moves.
I’m a retired engineer and I would love a look at the schematic. I’m sure it just measures skin resistance. Built a simple one in high school.
I love the idea of branching out on topics like this. Plus it was great fun looking at the guts of an e-meter.
Yes! I saw the thumbnail and couldn't click fast enough! Fascinating & unexpected
As an engineer the first thing that jumped out at me were all the precision calibration potentiometers, which are probably used to calibrate the box such that it has the desired response at different needle positions. What a pain in the ass to build and keep operational.
Yup, first thing I thought too. And they even made it with decent quality parts! What a waste for such a piece of junk.
I saw that too. So many high precision adjustments suggest a poor design. Not saying I could do better, I'm no EE. This will need a lot of test time. Maybe that is how they justify the high price. :-O
@@1906Farnsworth I think it is intentional. Part of the deception of the related lie detector tests is to have the examinees believe that the operators of polys, voice stress analyzers and E-Meters are highly skilled and trained professionals. By having the user "tune" the machines is part of the drama. Also, this "justifies" the high price. Tests cost up to 100s of dollars each for lie detectors and E-Meters for outside testers, and if the tests are done in-house, the machines cost into the thousands and up to 5 figures. The computer voice stress analyzer cost over $10,000, and it is just a Dell lap-top with a sound card and a cheap microphone.
@@1906Farnsworth Same here. Lots of adjustments are usually the sign of a bad design.
A number of years ago at a market there was scientology, I sat down for the e meter test. And I did everything opposite to what he asked me to do. Like think of the worst thing you could think of, I thought of the best thing. My daughter was impressed with the results of the e meter until I told her what I'd done.
An electrical engineer that worked for my father in the 60s-70s was an early scientologist. L Ron asked him to make the 1st E-Meter. When he heard L Ron’s claim for what the meter did, he argued that it just measured impedance. With L Ron’s wild claims that were scientificly abused to Jim, he left Scientology.
Ha, ha, ha device. I remember being approached once and to be "analyzed" by this meter. I quickly realized that it only measured resistance, so when I was told that I had "problems" I adjusted my grip on the probes and went into a pretend "yoga om" to adjust the reading; needless to say they adjusted their meter and I again went into a "yoga om" and brought the meter back to normal. The people administering the "test" were amazed at my ability. I had some fun, smiled and left them scratching their heads!
Sounds like what I did. I Ohmed in my mind and that apparently made my "needle float".
Years ago, I came across the blueprints and a parts list for one of these online. I ordered what few parts I didn't have and put it together on a breadboard. The instructions said to use soup cans but all I had was a couple of beer cans.
Thanks for sharing about Scientology. I once got to play around with an oscilloscope in middle school. The only cool thing I could figure out to do with it was set it so it would make a different shaped circular pattern for everyone who touched the probes. I tried my own pattern after I came back from lunch and p.e. and it was different. I checked out Scientology in my mid twenties and learned about E-meters. Later that evening, after being somewhat enthralled with the promises made by Scientology, I remembered messing around with that oscilloscope and figured there couldn't be any significant information about a person that could be made from a simple analog meter output and I never went back.
I want one so badly, tp put on the wall of my music room, next to Moroni's golden plates.
Lolololol! That's perfect
Sometimes see old ones on ebay
You have the original golden plates? Cool!
I dated a Mormon girl back in college. She was a progressive Mormon girl wanting her right to have more than 1 husband...she wanted them all to have high paying jobs, she wanted her own house, & each husband could only visit her once a month...she said she'd stop at 6 or 8 husbands & replace them when they died. She became one of my closest friends & we still chat today ever since 1977. She finally married, has just 1 husband in a traditional 2 person marriage, 3 children. I was secretly gay back then, became openly gay, & my beloved partner went into Eternity back in 2016. BTW. She believed the golden plates deal most seriously...I saw it as bunko!
@@charlesmendeley9823 Those golden plates only existed in Joseph Smith's imagination where they stayed forever buried. He was a rather attractive charismatic fellow who could charm people...women swooned over him & men wanted to be like him. He could literally charm women out of their clothes...he convinced men to do as he did...& basically a warped religion was born.
I was stunned to see how expensive e-meters were on ebay. $100 is actually a real good price, they're usually around $300.
I thought the "churches" paid thousands for them.
Total scam as its only about a tenners worth of components, hilarious that people pay for them.
In truth they're worthless.
I always thought the original inspiration for this was the old two soup cans with string between them. I can picture Hubbard, the old science fiction and comic book writer, sitting at his desk in the very beginning, dreaming up things, and seeing kids with two soup cans and string. "Hmm!", he thinks.
Being a techie kind of guy I always felt that the E-Meter was wayyyy overpriced. This only confirms that. If they really were a Church who cares for all as they proclaim, then they wouldn't be selling these things at such exorbitant prices. I had no idea you had to register the MK 8 every year. That just screams cult behavior. What an idiot I was for getting wrapped up in this crap.
Good for you for getting out! Not easy to do.
Smells like cult?? No waaay!
well its not a church. they use the word church and add a cross to their logo to give it the appearance of legitimacy. its a cult designed to grab as much money control and power as possible for the leader
@@neodimium Cologne oof the season!
all organized religion is cult behavior. lmao. ya dummy.
Let me add, a resistance meter is an extremely old and extremely simple circuit that was invented over one hundred years ago.
Didn’t Scientology in court say under oath that these meters don’t read anything?
Where
Not sure. I thought I read this someplace.
It's supposed to locate your past lives , about 75 million years ago and multiple invisible spirits which come along with you're 'Reactive Mind located on other planets besides Earth .'
And it was monitored by L. Ron and his
" Case Supervisors " International. How weird!!
Yes, in the 1970's , Hubbard's books had a disclaimer that the meter by itself does nothing.. In Hubbard's Tecnical Bulletins Hubbard claimed it as "Auditor plus PC is greater than the bank".
At least it looks tons more impressive than what I was hooked up to 45 years ago. It was a simplistic looking small rectangular black box, with a meter, and the hooked it up to what seemed to be Campbell's tomato paste cans with 🐊 clips.
The ones I ran across were hair spray cans with the spray unit cut out of the top. The cans were attached to the meter with wires and crocodile clips. I squeezed them surreptitiously in my hands and "worked" the questioner with false readings.
@@ScooterZn ... So, thinking back through the cobwebs, it was probably as early as 1971, to 1972, that a well meaning friend of mine took me with him to Buffalo NY, on a cold ass, bleak day to a Scientology place in an old storefront. It may even have been sawed off hair spray cans, whatever they were they were skinny. Fifty years can dull one's memory. While I waited for my friend's session to finish, they gave me a quick audit, and tried to make me sign up for a horrendously expensive series of audits. I declined, so when I went back to the waiting room out front, the receptionist was icy cold to me, and asked me if I didn't have somewhere else to go. I told her that I couldn't leave, as I was from a different city, and had to wait for my friend. She scowled, and looked annoyed. When I told my friend how I was given the bum's rush, after not signing up to be bilked out of thousands of dollars, he was surprised at the way I'd been treated. Eventually after several years he decided that they were indeed a scammy organization, and quit. Sorry for such a long message.
@@alejandrovargas7592 glad you both got out
Alejandro Vargas
That's because it was that. ;D
Mine was a simple wooden box with the dandified Wheatstone bridge hidden inside. At that, I found it felt more substantial than the plastic things they later foisted on the credulous. Looked better after I finished the wood box more properly. The "electrodes" WERE soup/tomato paste cans, the size used depending on the PC's hand size, with most preferring the smallest available.
2 ferrets, a wheel, and sawdust
I was expecting L. Ron to pop out
A few years back when visual effects work hit a slowdown, some friends of mine were hired for that silly promo video with Tom Cruise and the Mission Impossible music. They had to stay in housing provided by the church, sign tons of paperwork, and were told they could see and hear everything they did. On the other hand, they apparently paid very well.
I do not wish to fawn. You inspire me to be a better person. Your resilience is admirable. I was never in a cult (and certainly not raised in one), so I can only try to imagine how crippling (mentally, physically, spiritually) that must have been and still is. Perhaps it is the lack of not having endured those hardships myself, I am, in some respects and by comparison, weaker because of it. Thank you good Sir, for sharing these things with the rest of humanity. Cheers bro, you rule! ;-)
Edit: I'm saddened to hear you weren't elected. You may have lost this particular battle, but the war is forever winnable.
Very positive comment-and so true. Well done.
This was kind & so lovely, & beautifully expressed.
I'm sure you made A-A-Ron's day, you definitely brought me a smile. Don't forget to shine a little of that light on yourself :)
Why nobody ever assume that he's strong precisely because how he was raised when strengh of character comes in play, but as soon as someone is crashing; it's the cult!!! 😌
i like turtles .
This reminds me of like the magic 8 Ball when you're a kid. You ask a question like does this girl have a crush on me and then it pops up maybe
My mother was at a point where she was looking for a new religion, and she went in to the NY Scientology center. When presented with the e-meter she immediately rejected the religion. The auditor told her it was a lie-detector and that it was necessary for us to take a lie detector test because we lie to our selves.
Nice to know we have highly moral scientologists looking out for us. /sarc.
Well, at least he was honest I guess. Also, it seems strange to me that someone goes "Looking for a new religion" like it's window shopping. If you don't believe or like the one you're in wouldn't the most rational thing to do would be to say, "I don't know exactly" and accept the default of nature and natural origins? Going looking for another religion seems rather odd to me. No disrespect to your mother dude.
She needs a religion? How strange.
This was awesome. I was on a trip to LA once and I went into the big Scientology thing they have there just to have a look. I went on the e-meter and the lady couldn't get any reading. She said it must be broken and tried two more but nothing. I have a genetic condition and was born without sweat glands so... no sweat. I always wondered if that was why she couldn't get the meters to work on me. lol
Wow that’s EXACTLY why they couldn’t! Just goes to show what an absolute scam it all is.
@@Lenape_Lady Yeah, I always suspected that was the reason but now I got the lol rundown. Not being able to sweat is a rare condition so I'm sure they'd hardly even come across it. lmao
"Scientology handles that" - their answer to all doubts. Glad to see them hit a brick wall; won't phase them though.
Is that you prince andrew?
@@pedrovicente8745 lol
I'm guessing that the most accurate part of the e-meter/bs-meter would have to be the clock - maybe.
money
Except if it needs to go to daylight savings time!😆
I lost two friends to Fiat Lux in 2005/06....every cult can be a Danger, and it must be so much harder to get away when you grow up in this circles
As an engineer myself, I wonder how many trained electrical engineers they've hooked into their snake-oil religion. I'm guessing none.
You may be surprised, plenty of engineers got sucked into NASA’s heliocentric religion.
@@tacticalant3841 lmao, i’m guessing YOU aren’t an engineer, or scientist of any kind Mister Ant.
@@conzmoleman -is that a prerequisite to join the religion?
@@tacticalant3841 The device you are typing this on only works because it was derived from the same scientific principles that tell us the earth orbits the sun.
@@conzmoleman and which principal is that?
It’s basically a ohm meter with two tin cans.
Correct
@@GrowingUpInScientology I've heard that Tom Cruise gets the best results from sticking one of the cans up his butt and then holding the other one and shaking it. What he does with his other hand is yet to be discovered I guess that's OT 9 or perhaps David miscavage knows the secret and is participating in his spiritual growth.
I have never seen anything so ridiculous in my life!! How so many people can fall for such a scam is incomprehensible!!
I've always thought these Xenu meters were as useful as the light in your refrigerator is when the door is closed.
I was thinking of a door stop.. but a rock would be more useful.
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”, Benjamin Franklin
When you "move the components they don't *feel* cheap" but the *experience* does:))
Years ago a friend of mine wanted to go to the weekly flea market and I went along with her. Now she was a great friend, but she absolutely had to go to every booth there and that's how we stumbled across the Scientology booth. I would have steered clear of that particular booth knowing what I know about Scientology, but she just had to go even though I told her it was bullshit. So while one of the ladies was talking her into buying the Dianetic's book the other came at me with a plywood box with two wires attached to just regular pipes that you were supposed to hold onto. A little meter looking dial was fitted into the box and was supposed to show if you were troubled or something, I never knew what it actually did. I was trying not to laugh in the poor girls face and the meter moved a bit and the girl acted like it was a revelation of some sort. Honestly I could barely contain myself and told her no thanks I didn't need her book and got out fast. My friend of course bought the damn book and still hasn't read it to this day! It was a pretty pitiful attempt to get me interested in Scientology and the woman looked so sad. My meter wasn't as fancy as this one for sure. Hahaha
I've noticed that the junk mail I get, becomes more attractive when life is hard.
I bet that's how scientology works, it automatically weeds out the smart/well off, & is left with the clueless/desperate.
@@Eduardo_Espinoza By this point in time, who hasn't heard the horror stories about Scientology? They would have to be desperate to join something or anything I guess. But I bet you're right about them weeding out the people that could cause trouble in the future. I really can't wit till they find Miscavige and haul him to court where he's scrutinized by normal intelligent people and where all of his misdeeds are laid bare.
@@janmarchand7294 until these recent trials, a bunch of younger people wouldn't be v aware. It's also pretty US centric for numbers so it's v unlikely to run across them accidentally. Add in that the people in vulnerable situations generally have less time or spare brain power to learn about this cult. When you're struggling to survive, that drives out much else
Said it before and I’ll say it again…I love these videos!! They don’t have to be bombshell videos I love them all! Thx Aaron
For the life of me I can’t understand how people fall for this crap!!
Because they suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. (i'm serious)
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Disclosing this sacred technology is BLASPHEMY
Zenu will get you
And the devil too. Or the big bad wolve.....
@@annekerotterdam7499 and the dogs and the bees, and the dogs with bees in their mouth so when they bark they shoot bees at you
@@DaangerousDan553 Dogs can't shoot
Is Zenu a man? Is he good looking? If he's interested in a new religion I'll take him for a rainbow ride!
@@curtischildress9580 Zenu looks like your greatest fears and hate rolled into a soft Gordita crunch from Taco Bell.
Thank You Aaron. Blessings And Truth For All.
I was hoping it's a warning device, indicates when a scientologist is nearby so you can avoid them.
I think it would be interesting to see an auditing session with the questions that are asked.
Unfortunately, I think, that's how they get ya...
My guess is that they used expensive, wire-wound pots for the simple reason that their excursion would not feel "cheap," not for their electronic performance. This perceptual impression was worth it to them.
when you are selling them for 5K, why cheap out on the parts ?
They used even cheaper carbon pots for a while. Because the tone arm (potentiometer/pot) tended to stay in a certain area for the most part, that part of the carbon wore a bit, creating "dust" which would make the needle gyrate wildly if you rested your thumb on the tone arm at just the right/wrong spot. That, as I heard it, was THE reason that most every crew member was accused and convicted of being a "rock slammer" and dumped into the RPF for (unnecessary) rehabilitation.
And here I thought it just contained hot air…
No, your mistaken...it wasn't the machine that is full of hot air, it's Miscavige and people like Tom Cruise that you describe...
I’d love to know how they came to design the e meter to begin with. This was super interesting to watch. Thank you.
Hubbard on cocaine probably
The design came from the same place as all of Eron's "technology." Out of his ass.
Stolen technology, basically. Then Hubbard bullshit his way into making it relevant for his bullshit ideas.
It was actually originally invented by a chiropractor named Volney Mathison who, at one point, was basically a partner of Hubbard. From what I understand, they had a bit of a falling out, and Hubbard in typical LRH behavior, tweaked the the design, claimed that it was his invention, and began selling it to Scientologists as the "Hubbard E-meter". There is debate, however; some sources claim Mathison sold him the patent rights. Either way, it's just like Hubbard to not give anyone but himself credit for anything. I would actually be surprised if any non-executive Scientologists have ever even heard Mathison's name.
@@scribesntribes Yikes. That guy was probably just as happy to NOT be associated with this is the long run.
A few years ago, for shits-n-giggles, I made an E-meter using a $35 Arduino and two soup cans. I plugged a Chromecast into the USB port and sent the display to my TV. It took a little coding to create a graphical interface but it was simple enough. The entire project took 2 hours, max.
but the shits-n-giggles lasted a lifetime.
The youth these days. Life gives them lemons and they build satellites to watch porn with it... or E-meters.
So now you can audit people on TV? ;*[}>
This looks & sounds exactly like the "testers" the homeopathic people use. I was asked to re solder some test probes for a homeopathic friend as they had loose connectors, whilst playing with the units ( made in germany) they looked & behaved like a basic lie detector that just measures the resistance between your hand ( 1st probe) and the " magic wand" ( 2nd probe).
It was used to detect allergies such as candida / yeast etc.
The units were/ are very expensive too.
E-Meters, putting the pseudo-science in Scientology.
Great video, this proves what an utter scam Scientology is.
I have no experience of scientology, But am an electronics engineer, I could see what a scam device this is, I could build one out of parts from my spares bin.
@@dogwalker666 As could most twelve year olds. Not build it, but recognize the obvious scam : )
@@zimmyfan617 exactly.
For someone who's been through so much, you are always cheerful 😊
It's nothing more than a galvanic resistance meter that measures the resistance in a circuit. You can get an extremely cheap version of this for less than $15 that will also measure voltage and amperage, something Scientology's "E-Meter" cannot do.
I like the design though. if I get hands on one for free, I build my own E-multimeter. I would need a culty slogan too.
something like:
"Join the Resistance " or "Feel the current"
@@aleisterlavey9716 that was brilliant 👍😂
Tom Cruise escaped with Mark 7 fighting against a Mark 8 E-Meter. It's not the machine, it's the pilot.
He got a good deal. They’re $350 plus shipping on eBay right now.
By good deal, I mean that he got a $100 ticket to crazy town versus a $375 ticket to crazy town versus a $5000 ticket to crazy town.
I’m guessing the NSA knows everything that they need to know to jail miscarriage and Tom cruise and a whole raft of other psychopaths. Why don’t they arrest them ?
I'm no electrical engineer but I would wager that's what's actually in an E Meter is a fair degree of bullshit...
Thanks for going over that Video A-Aron, I've always been interested in E-Meters and, have been looking for one for cheap/free for years, just to be able to play around with it.
That little girl is so sweet! I hope she grows up to be a country star
The fact that nobody just went off and killed Miscavige and killed him after one of the many tormented things he’s done.
Based
The Eureka Meter 😆😅🤣.. I can feel it working through the INNER-WEB 😅🤣.. Thanx Lafayette 🤣🤣🤣.. This is Delicious 😋😉.. As always, Thnx Aaron 👊 👍 OLD GV😃
Aaron I give you a thumbs up even before seeing your video. Lol. I'll ask my coworkers who are electrical techs what they think about the emeter.
This is beyond ridiculous!!!! I can't believe that someone believes in this !!!
Thank you for exposing this. I love your channel!
Thank you
Ohms law and human sweat has not changed in a while, so I don't see how a Model 8 can possibly be better that the E-Meter of this post. The new one just has an anti-SP barrier.
The principle with the E-Meter is about the same as the polygraph and the voice stress analyzer. All three devices are pseudo-science devices which is why they are not admissible in court. How these devices "work" is the the person being examined has to believe they work. Legitimate scientific studies have found polygraphs and voice stress analyzers have around a 50% accuracy rate, or the reliability of a coin flip.
I thought it was interesting that Scientology lied to their members about people being prosecuted for using the E-Meter outside of Scientology. However, the polygraph industry was successful in having Douglas Gene Williams prosecuted for advising clients on how to "beat" the polygraph. He did roughly two years in prison.
Charles Humble is the founder of National Institute of Truth Verification. He is remarkably like LRH in that he has a fake doctorate and presents himself as Dr. Humble. He is also a self-proclaimed renaissance man like LRH. Like LRH before him, Humble has found himself under legal scrutiny and his organization is currently under Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
One more point is that one of the private detectives, Daniel Ribacoff allegedly hired to arrange the death of Leah Remini by Scientology, claims to be one of the best polygraphists in the World. However, after several racist comments about African Americans, he was fired as the polygraphist on the Steve Wilkos show. His daughter, Susan, was using the polygraph to "fail" African Americans from being able to join the New York City Transit Police.
For more information about the pseudo science of all forms of so-called electronic lie detector devices, go to antipolygraph . org
I think a video about the relationship of Daniel Ribacoff and scientology will make an excellent video
Thanks for clarifying who dan ribacoff is. I thought it was the dude from Steve W. Lie detectors aren't admissable in court so why does CoS think they are legit? So many ?????
@@kimkeffer827 He was with polygraphist from the Steve Wilkos show until he was fired for being a racist. Also, he was hired by Scientology to spy on Leah Remini and allegedly find a way to kill her since her series has been very damaging to Scientology
"Now we're going to ask you questions about uncomfortable things and when you cringe we know we have something we can use to blackmail or otherwise coerce you later."
@00:10 Having heard the guy speak for 3 words I knew he was Swiss 😊 Guess it needs one to know one. Awesome channel and awesome dude. Also regularly watching your channel and loving how you expose amd explain the state and inner workings of this organisation. It's a constant thorn in the back of my mind that they planted a huge center in my hometown Basel, at least big enough David Miscavige turned up for the opening in 2015. Scientology has bought up an big amount of real estate in that area of the city prior to the opening of this "Ideal-Scientology-Org" and you can bet that the neighbours were less than enthused and even less welcoming.
this video was so much fun to watch
Play with Junk sounds like an Only Fans acct
It's literally the least-accurate EEG system ever manufactured.
This video misses some very important ingredients for the E meter… A part of Xenu’s Spirit is placed inside each meter, a tear drop from L Ron Hubbard , and the upgraded E meters also include a single hair from Tom Cruise. Those three ingredients alone are worth $5000
How freaking weird is all that??? It's even kind of gross!
And a toenail clipping from John Travolta. 😆
@@roninaround6450 Why not?! The whole deal is warped bonkers!
You can't forget the 2 drops of blood from Lisa McPherson and an ounce of bath water from Jett Travolta....
@@donaldjohnson5633 Gross! ...Is stuff like that even remotely true???
As a confirmed SP who granulated to Fair Game, I have so often wished I could clone a meter just to squirrel the tech and start my own eBay franchise ;-). Only thing stops me is not wanting to waste my time on such obvious bullshit. Being groomed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy was time & a life wasted enough.
Aaron, I don't know if you have already done a reaction to the South Park Scientology episode, but if you haven't, you should. I thought of it now because it involves the people giving the e-meter test thinking Stan is the reincarnation of Ron L. Hubbard because of the machine's reading of his (absolutely vague and led by the questions) answers. I'd love to see it.
I am going to watch that.
I would like to see the entire episode again, but scientology still has a lot of pull, and it is very hard to find that episode.
@@jeffholloway7974 can't hide stuff from the pirates. Check out the piracy subreddit and the megathread. It's just recently unmaintained but the streaming sites for cartoons still work, just use an ad blocker. Season 9 episode 12, the one you are talking about is there.
We should have a kickstarter campaign to make the modern equivalent of these devices and sell them for $15 each.
You’ve been finding some cool videos to comment on lately, keep it up!!
Honestly, the guts look like any crime drama on TV, just add 2 sticks of dynamite and set the timer and hope McGiver shows up. 😜
I thought it contained just a mouse and a hamster wheel. And perhaps a rubber band.
Puckering and un-puckering your sphincter mussels also allows you to manipulate the meter needle. I did it at a Scientology booth in San Diego. They did not like my explanation. But I did gain two loyal followers.
“Go Gadget Go”. Haha!
Looks like a 1950s Si-Fi prop🤣
Very interesting and informative
Fascinating!! Thanks!!💕💕💕💕
Basically it's an Ohm meter with an adjustable 'centring'. You can buy an Ohm meter for about £5.
So the added circuitry in the newer E-Meters is not necessarily any improvement over the older ones' functionality, it's solely there to enable Scientology HQ to maintain greater control of these machines I guess? Definitely a cool video, A-ARON. I've always been curious about the guts of these E-Meters...
I’m pretty sure you could bypass the DRM if you wanted to. I doubt they use a single chip for everything now. Probably, they just hook up the DRM chip in series or in a relay to cut current to the other components if a proper authorization is not received. Ever heard of Juicero? Basically a DRM juice press. It’s been hacked relatively easily, and it’s way more complicated than this.
I find all the technical terms and Scientology codes too hard to follow. I have learnt more about the Cult from the Leah Rimini interviews than from any A Aron. Programmes
I absolutely love your videos!
I love so much, watching Aaron's reaction & smiling to videos! Crack me up 😂😂
really enjoyed the video, can"t beieve it can be found on ebay!! in my head I had imagined a much bigger system something really intimidating.
Interesting. Interesting. Now where do I put my feet?
😆😆😆 It’s Always ☀️
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
I’m curious to know if there is some sort of provision for sea org members who grow too old to be useful as free labor or are they just left to fend for themselves after years of slave labor?
don't they just ship them off on the Freewinds and toss them overboard? Sadly, I could see that being "golden retirement" for the Sea Org.
Soylent green?😄
Great question. Probably take them out.
They're sent to visit Shelly Miscavige.
@@pbxn-3rdx-85percent It's the people...
3D Print the case, replace knobs with servos, program a Raspberry Pi to control everything funny numbers and text on displays and make knobs turn themselves and the needle go wild! ha ha! Maybe even put a speaker inside for extra fun. 😆
A couple of soup cans, some electrical leads with alligator clips and you’ll have an E Meter.
Saddest part for me is that i believed in e-meter even though I'am trained engineer.
Serious? I’m intrigued as to why and how?
A well built scam machine.👍👍
I am legit surprised that they use high-quality components.
thought the same, id guessed its some cheapo china stuff worth maybe 20 to 30 bux
Surprised there isn't potting fluid or some other crap painted on the chips to stop anyone reading the ID info on them.
Do they ask you to put some cream on your hands?
Bros got the best job anyone can dream of
They do actually! If the Tone Arm on the meter is reading above 3.0, you have to put on hand cream to bring the TA to between 2.0 and 3.0 at the start of every auditing session.
What did prehistoric Scientologists use to go clear?
2 rocks tied to a half dead dinosaur chicken by a couple of grape vines!