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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Hubbard
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 15:50:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 15:50:54 1984
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   L. Ron Hubbard is in fact the inventor of Dianetics, and the guru of 
Scientology. He was also, in the 1940's (before inventing dianetics),
a science-fiction writer, and a popular one at that. I beleive that he was
responsible for the "Ol' Doc Methuselah" series of stories.
For those who haven't heard the story, dianetics took the science-fiction
community by storm. A.E. van Vogt and John W. Campbell in particular
became involved in it. Several writers ahd tehemselved "cleared" by Hubbard
(I think that's the terminology), and went on to become "auditors", 
trying to "clear" all of their friends. I beleive that Campbell's
second wife he met thru dianetics. However, most reasonable people became
quickly disenchanted with the whole thing ( within about a year).
Hubbard then went on to found his little religion; he seems to have done
quite well by it, although he spends most of his time on his yacht,
out in international waters, to avoid being arrested by the FBI.
-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll