Robert initially writes this as a concern about the field of NLP:
If you are the type of person who looks at the “proof” about Scientology only on scientology sites, then great. The problem here is that the NLP machine is a “business enterprise”, and as such any research from NLP sources has to be examined within that light.
In response someone posted the issue of whether commercialization is an issue, and whether a drug like penicillin should be less regarded because it’s manufactured as a commercial product (which is a terrible comparison, by the way for a number of reasons.