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Why did the Food and Drug Administration seize Scientology E-meters in 1963?
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L. Ron Hubbard's seminal – and controversial – work was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, written in 1950.
In 1963, agents from the Food and Drug Administration raided the Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C., and seized its E-meters. The government took this action on the grounds that the devices were being used as unauthorized instruments for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.1