[hueving]

You don't have to be a member of a community to recognize something about it from the outside.

People can critique scientology without being members. The same can be done with medical research goals.

[dullcrisp]

Yes, but the criticisms of Scientology having merit doesn't mean that these criticisms have merit. And people thinking that airplanes were overly ambitious when they were just around the corner doesn't mean that a cure for death is just around the corner.

Both those things might be true, but I would need stronger evidence than has been presented thus far to convince me.