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- From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
- Subject: scientology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.002139.21201@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:21:39 GMT
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- in article <725431189.27397@zooid.guild.org> Newsgroup: misc.books.technical,
- ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
- >phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman) writes:
- >>jmacphai@cue.bc.ca (James MacPhail) writes:
- >>
- >>>The best-seller part is no mystery. They just go out and buy their own book
- >>>in sufficient quantity to hit the volume mark. (Then re-sell them, I guess?)
- >>
- >>That's plain ridiculous. No publisher does that. The word "best-seller"
- >>has no real meaning, so anyone can call any book that.
- >>
- >No honest publisher does it, but I have read magazine articles which state
- >that the Church of Scientology did exactly that to put L. Ron Hubbard's books
- >on best seller lists. (Sound reasonable to me--I've read some of that tripe.)
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-
- Has the markings of a UL, might even qualify for a motto. Any
- evidence that Scientology would do something like this?
-
- ObUL: Psychology is a scam.
-
- Jon "L. Ron Hubbard is Werner Erhard" Papai
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