The worst... EVER science fiction writer, failed naval officer and paranoid schizo who created all the elements of this fake “religion” out his crummy books. The e-meter— want to have fun— plug yourself in with a couple of small AA batteries wired to your skin. Send the “auditor” around the bend trying to figure out how the thing isn’t working.
A joke— like 1920s fake medical devices. The “device” is to justify the ever increasing fees to become “clear” of..... alien beings who have taken over a person. Honest to God— what utter horsecrap. Take a look at these people aside from the bastards who are ripping everyone off from up near the top (and this cretin Miscavige who is a weasel through and through)— they look like the cult people who were waiting for the mother ship, and killed themselves— or Jim Jones. and their enforcers?- oh how would love to see one of them come up against some serious muscle and get their a@@es kicked.
This entire operation is debilitating to human nature and is a vampire on people’s very souls- those with weak constitutions and nearly no backbone. In short.. “marks” for the grifters, who are now going where they can find more idiots— television... the most sincere form of imitation.
Yeah the e-Meter is similar to the galvanic skin response sensor on a polygraph So in a very crude sense it measures emotional response to their “interview questions”. They use that “response” to their questions during the “interviews” to manipulate their “mark”.