ADDITIVES

Anything extra added to an already workable process or procedure which reduces or nullifies the results obtainable from that process or procedure.

1. in the period up to 1966 we were plagued by an occasional obsessiveness to add to any process or policy. Additives made things unworkable. (HCO PL 30 May 70, Important, Cutatives) 2. people add things that aren't there. If it isn't written into the line-up it isn't there. (HCO PL 16 Jan 61)

things which have been added. This usually has a bad meaning in that an additive is said to be something needless or harmful which has been done in addition to standard procedure. Additive normally means a departure from standard procedure. For example, an auditor puts different or additional words into a standard process or command. It means a twist on standard procedure. In common English, it might mean a substance put into a compound to improve its qualities or suppress undesirable qualities. In Dianetics and Scientology it definitely means to add something to the technical procedure resulting in undesirable results. —Intro to Scn Ethics Glossary (app. 14.7.90)