 Martin Gardner analyzes the book extensively in "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science".Gardner wrote that the "most revealing" material in "A Doctor's Report on Dianetics", were the records of the author's own auditing sessions, which showed that the auditor effectively relied on loaded questions to produce from the client responses validating the dianetic theory, while ignoring those that did not.Gardner chastised the technique for obscuring the real roots of psychological and psychosomatic troubles.