The History of Science Fiction

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Hubbard was complaining to l spragg de camp and the others about riding for a penny a word. Lester delray then said, half jokingly, what you really ought to do is create a religion,. cause it would be tax free. And at that point, everybody in the room started in in with ideas for this new religion. So the idea it was a gestalt and ran caught on to and assimilated the details. He then wrote it up as dionetics, a new science of the mind, and sold it to john w. Campbell junior, who published it in astounding science fiction in 19 50. It's kind of, jesus and and paul, like pot

Shermer and Theroux discuss: how documentary films are made • religious fanaticism and why people believe • UFO cults, end-times sects, and cognitive dissonance • Scientology: religion or cult? • neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism • prisons, pornography, and prostitution • Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile • self-help movements and gurus • deception and self-deception • social proof and human conformity • are humans naturally rational, irrational, or both?

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary filmmaker best known for his explorations of controversial and complex topics. Using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach, Louis has shone light on intriguing beliefs, behaviors, and institutions by getting to know the people at the heart of them — from the officers and inmates at San Quentin prison to the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; from male porn performers in California to young women with eating disorders in London.