Hi Sara. Yes, Gene Denk was with him — after a stroke or two and pancreatitis and whatever other ailments had not been cured by NOTs and he was in constant pain.

Which may be the source of Hubbard’s confusion. But Hubbard should have known better.

Don’t think it ever really struck me before that not only was LRH experiencing and expressing paranoia at times, but he also straight up drank from the conspiracy theorist fruit punch. This, and another one where he hints at the notion there’s a small hidden group of wealthy running things.

As for the rest, I suspect Hubs with his failure to even have a single college semester with respectable grades was dreadfully jealous and petty in his expression of that toward anyone society clearly respected or who showed true genius.

Les, in Germany it’s very common for people with any sort of doctoral-level degree, including in law (which in that country’s system, is often a professional path to business rather than legal practice), to use the title of “Dr.”

The medical (and mental health) professions continued getting more rigorous, and developing better technology including pharmacology, while Hubbard remained mired in an approach that had its roots in the era of bloodletting as a cure-all (which lingered into the early 20th century). He also became just the sort of greedy charlatan he railed against, in what in retrospect seems like some perverse sort of projection.

This stuff goes in deep in the mindset, insidious seagrass mistrust that lingers past cult involvement.

Strewn throughout Hubbard’s works, he refers to medical professionals only ever in derisive terms.

Medicos, quacks, snake oil salesman, charlatans, etc. He used every opportunity to negate science and flaunt his smug nonsense.

On any rare occasion otherwise, you can bet the gist of his story is how the benevolent wise LRH triumphed or saved the day, got the big bow at the end.

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Realizing SCN is a bullshit cult is one thing. Peeling LRH tek falsehoods out of one’s mind and lexicon is a top layer.

The insidious stuff includes this mistrust.

This is not to say that the medical profession provides perfect results, but in my experience with my various ailments, they have done a decent job and no doctor has accused me of having ‘hidden standards’ and then gone on to charge me more money for some lame assed placebo.