Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter > The device was intended to put the science in Scientology

Image caption: Scientologists use the E-meter to “audit” church members. Image credit: Whipple Museum of the History of Science / University of Cambridge. Article by Allison Marsh. IEEE Spectrum – March 31, 2024.

To call L. Ron Hubbard a prolific writer is an extreme understatement. From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. Not to be constrained by genre, he wrote zombie mysteries, historical fiction, pirate adventure tales, and westerns. […]

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