Donald C. Lindsay
Long time critic.
The alt.religion.scientology Non-Scientologist FAQs
My Take on the Church
Where to? Well, there is credible testimony that it goes to the
top of the pyramid, and then mostly vanishes. How much? - oh,
$100-$200 million a year, pretty well in the same ballpark with
the bigger TV evangelists. Except there aren't any evangelists
who spend $20 million a year on lawsuits to
harass their critics.
"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion."
L. Ron Hubbard is widely rumored to have said
"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion."
There are also variant rumors. For some reason, this is often
mentioned on Usenet. Evidence is discussed below, but the short
answer is that it's almost certainly true.
The Church of Scientology has actually taken German publishers
to court for printing this story. Stern won (see below).
Hubbard said it was science
He said it very clearly, and on many
occasions. He compared his "tech" with physics and chemistry,
and said it was just as precise. He said he was a
nuclear physicist. He said he'd done experiments and had
evidence. He put an equation in "Dianetics, the modern
Science of Mental Health".
Hubbard did not know the first thing about science. Chapter one
of Dianetics is total proof of that, to a real scientist.
(Nor is that "equation" actually an equation - it just looks like one.) His
science fiction has terrible lapses of knowledge and logic. He did study to be a
mechanical engineer, but flunked out half way through. He got 'F' in Nuclear
Physics.
Don
Lindsay Archive
After 17 years around universities, and 19
years in the computer industry, I am both a scientist and an
engineer.
My major computer science interests are computer architecture,
operating systems, compilers, tools, and technology forecasting.
As you can guess from my
publications, I've been paid to do all of these. I'm
currently based in Silicon Valley.
I have been writing for years, so this archive now has over 250 web pages and
over 100 images.
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