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Hubbard's inflated claims

To address just a few of the areas in which this "Guest"'s assertions are false or misleading:

* "[Hubbard] was a member of New York's prestigious Explorer's Club that only accepts members who have made contributions to society in the area of new explorations." The Explorer's Club did not, however, check any of a candidate's claims; Hubbard's application included, for instance, a "pioneering mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico" -- of which neither the US Geological Survey nor the Puerto Rican Department of Natural Resources has any knowledge.

* "For the US Navy he conducted the Alaskan Radio Experimental Expedition testing out new ways to navigate." The "expedition" was not "for the US Navy"; the US Navy had no prior knowledge of Hubbard's trip and did not put that trip under any sort of official designation. Hubbard simply sent the Navy, unsolicited, some notes and some rolls of film and claimed that made it an expedition for the US Navy. Under that sort of logic, the schizophrenic who mails his rambling screed about the messages extraterrestrials are beaming into his head to the White House is "reporting directly to the President."

* "[Hubbard's] breakthroughs in biochemistry has resulted in the most effective drug rehabilitation program in the world, that is now used by Narconon, the largest private drug rehab network in the world." Hubbard claimed some amazing results but what matters in science is not what you claim, but what other scientists can verify. Not one of Hubbard's "breakthroughs" has met this test. Neither is Narconon "the most effective drug rehabilitation program in the world"; while Scientology advertises "studies" which purport to show an amazing success rate, these studies are frequently flawed. An example is the "Swedish study", which claimed that over 75% of Narconon graduates became "drug-free permanently"; however, looking closely, it turns out that people who by their own admission took drugs after finishing the Narconon program were still counted as "drug-free permanently" if they claimed not to be taking drugs at the time they were contacted.

I feel sorry for this Guest, who has accepted without sufficient questioning many of the lies that L. Ron Hubbard told about his life and his achievements. I would highly recommend that he go looking for more information about these amazing things that Hubbard claimed to have achieved, but this time look in more places than just those approved by the Church of Scientology.

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