Inside the World of L. Ron Hubbard

[chr0naut]

Interesting... Something that I didn't know before...

Apparently there was a pill called Dianazene that L. Ron Hubbard was touting could protect from radiation and cancer.

Dianazene - Wikipedia

Rad-X anyone?

[quintessentone]

Hubbard's book: "All About Radiaton".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Radiation

"Hubbard's falsified qualifications
Despite calling himself a nuclear physicist (some editions of the book even call him "one of America's first nuclear physicists" on the dustjacket), Hubbard was not a qualified physicist. His degree was from the unaccredited Sequoia University, a diploma mill. The one course in nuclear physics Hubbard took was in 1931 at George Washington University, whose records indicate that he scored an F in the course.[sup][4][/sup] Hubbard dropped out of school shortly thereafter, with a 2.28 grade point average.[sup][5][/sup]

Hubbard referred to himself as a nuclear physicist on many occasions in the 1950s, such as in the tape-recorded 1956 lecture A Postulate Out of a Golden Age, where he not only claimed to be a nuclear physicist, but that he was offered (and turned down) a U.S. Government post as one. This comment has been edited out of the CD version of the lecture currently offered by the L. Ron Hubbard Classic Lectures series.
The book was mentioned in the resulting report of an official inquiry in Australia:

"The Board heard evidence from a highly qualified radiologist who has made a special study of radiation and its effects. He said that Hubbard's knowledge of radiation, as displayed by his writings in All About Radiation, was the 'sort of knowledge that perhaps a boy who has read Intermediate Physics might, with a lot of misapprehensions and lack of understanding, demonstrate'. ... From this witness's evidence it is apparent that Hubbard is completely incompetent to deal with the subject of radiation and that his knowledge of nuclear physics is distorted, inaccurate, mistaken and negligible. No evidence was called which disputed in any way these conclusions."

— Kevin Victor Anderson in Report of the Board of Inquiry into Scientology (1965) [sup][6][/sup]

In February 1966, Hubbard defended his mail-order degree: "I was a Ph.D., Sequoia's [sic] University and therefore a perfectly valid doctor under the laws of the State of California". But only a month later, he announced: "having reviewed the damage being done in our society with nuclear physics and psychiatry by persons calling themselves "Doctor" [I] do hereby resign in protest my university degree as a Doctor of philosophy (Ph. D.)".[sup][7]"[/sup]

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See now why doing a background check is merited for everyone and should have been done on this guy, long ago.

[BeyondKnowledge]

Interesting... Something that I didn't know before...

Apparently there was a pill called Dianazene that L. Ron Hubbard was touting could protect from radiation and cancer.

Dianazene - Wikipedia

Rad-X anyone?

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It is even claimed to treats sunburn. That must have been the inspiration for Radaway.

Well, if you are into making a religion for making money, you might as well go all in I guess. The e-meters, books, and pills. 

I wonder if he avoided bananas. They are slightly radioactive.

[andy06shake]

It is even claimed to treats sunburn. That must have been the inspiration for Radaway.

Well, if you are into making a religion for making money, you might as well go all in I guess. The e-meters, books, and pills. 

I wonder if he avoided bananas. They are slightly radioactive.

This is true, but you'd need to eat millions of bananas at once to get a dangerous radiation dose.

And before that happened, you would have far more immediate problems to contend with.

Same with the likes of Mussels and other shellfish...

[chr0naut]

It is even claimed to treats sunburn. That must have been the inspiration for Radaway.

Well, if you are into making a religion for making money, you might as well go all in I guess. The e-meters, books, and pills. 

I wonder if he avoided bananas. They are slightly radioactive.

LGBTQWERTY+ parthenocarpic fruit!



also... old cliche but, "is that a bannana in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"