Sandy Smith writing on the BBC'S editors blog does try to give some justification and balance to the story.
As part of his investigations, our reporter John
Sweeney had been shown an exhibition entitled the 'Industry of Death'.
Scientologists believe that all psychiatry should be eradicated, and that it is
evil in every form. Like everything to do with Scientology, their views are
absolute.
In that exhibition John had seen representations of needles being
pushed into children's eyes, he'd seen torture imagery, all of which
Scientologists say is legitimate. He'd been talking to Scientologists and
ex-Scientologists all week, they'd been dogging his every step, following him,
and interrupting interviews that he'd been doing. At one point he was conducting
an interview when a spokesman for the Scientologists turned up unannounced in
the middle of a car park, to challenge John for "interviewing a
pervert".
We are after all,all human
