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Fortunately, I've read that scientology is on the decline; they're not fooling people like they used to. "Battlefield Earth" was supposed to be a big comeback for them; they had promotions going on the Internet and elsewhere that would encourage teenagers to write or email them for some free BE prize; and then they would harvest the kid's addresses and start trying to market scientology to them.
At an science fiction convention once, I spent an interesting half-hour talking to an old writer who knew L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of scientology, when he was getting the organization started. Gullible sci-fi fans were his first target audience. Anyway, it was a deliberate scam from day 1.
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