Science is a religion? FALLACY!

"…Scientology textbooks sometimes refer to psychiatry as a "Nazi science. Well, look at the history. Jung was an editor for the Nazi papers during World War II. … Look at the experimentation the Nazis did with electric shock and drugging. Look at the drug methadone. That was originally called Adolophine. It was named after Adolf Hitler."

Oh, famous celebrities! You make us laugh! But commentators, what happened to you?

Well for starters, the first thing mentioned in this argument is scientology. Now, I’m pretty sure scientology doesn’t reflect the actions of the Nazi’s. In this argument it starts off with a subject of interest, but after reading more into it, the subject of interest changes to something completely tangent: the holocaust and the World War II. This type of fallacy is called the Red Herring: when you start off with subject A, mentions subject B afterwards, and completely forget subject A. The person that is speaking about Tom Cruise’s “religion” is stating that his religion is like a Nazi power. Afterwards he goes in a rant about the history and events of the holocaust and the war that was part of it. Completely, scientology isn’t’ mentioned ever again for the new interest is what occurred in the World War II.

Truly the person’s reasons are to make a clear point that scientology is evil, leave it there and then distract the reader to hear the history of the war in order to emphasize how horrible scientology is.The speaker doesn’t mention the history of the “religion” or what it is about, he just rants on and on about historical events that have nothing to do with what he started. Truly his distraction works for many of the people that viewed it seemed content with what he proclaimed, but in reality they were fooled for the full explanation or details of his subjects weren’t complete, thus making this argument unreliable to believe; it is illegitimate.