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Subject: All about radiation
Answered by: honorarykid
Asked By: Anonymous

Anonymous asked this question on 5/4/2000:

I see a couple of books I'm thinking of buying written by L. Ron Hubbard called "All about radiation" and then, amusingly enough, another one that's "extended." (Presumably the original book wasn't really "all about radiation" since he needed another book.)

Has anyone read it? I know that Hubbard took one physics course and that he failed it with an F grade, but is his book worth reading?

honorarykid gave this response on 5/4/2000:

Hubbard was a failure as a student in science and engineering disciplines. He got acceptable grades in reading and English classes.

I wouldn't trust a single thing Hubbard said about radiation.

I haven't read this book, but have heard a bit about it. In it, I believe Hubbard claims that radiation is stored in the body's fat cells.

And conveniently, Hubbard also "discovered" an easy way to remove that nasty radiation from those turgid fat cells. Just sit in a sauna for hours and hours a day, for a couple of weeks, while taking megadoses of the B vitimin "Niacin."

This is the Purification Rundown, a secular and sacred (yes, it's both!) religious, but non-religious bit of medical quackery.

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