Scientologists and the Galactic Confederation
WHAT do Scientologists believe in? The story that L. Ron Hubbard founded the organisation to win a bet with science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein – that Hubbard couldn’t start a religion and make a fortune – must be dismissed as too good to be true; and it is in fact false.
The organisation’s many and busy lawyers are reported to have gone as far as obtaining two affidavits that Hubbard did not say anything like this in response to a question about making money from writing at a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association in Newark, New Jersey, on 7 November…
