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What evidence have you? Lots of New Age practitioners claim that New Age practices work for them. Scientology does not allow members to claim levels of advancement until they attest to "wins".
For my part, the single biggest influence that "their brand of rationality" (i.e. the Sequences) has had on me may very well be that I now know how to effectively disengage from dictionary arguments.
Even if certain rationality techniques are effective that's separate from the claims about the rest of the organisation. Similar to the early level Scientology classes being useful social hacks but the overall structure less so.
They are? Do you have a reference? I thought they were weird nonsense about pointing to things and repeating pairs of words and starting at corners of rooms and so on.