ScientologySome are healthy and some hate L. Ron Hubbard. Before my months of research into the religion of Scientology, I had never heard of a man so loved and so despised by many. The science fiction writer turned leader/antithesis depending on your position made his way into the world in 1950 when a book called Dianetics hit the west coast of America like a storm. Some claim this was his plan, saying he was only after money. I cannot conclude other than that L. Ron Hubbard was a genius in the business of deception and making money. Many books have been written that discredit the Scientology religion, including Paulette Cooper's book The Scientology Scandal which describes everything she believes. be flaws in the Scientology religion. Being a biased source, I moved from this book to an article published four years after the death of Scientology Lafayette founder Ronald Hubbard. Called “The History of Scientology,” it was a Los Angeles Times series that was written to walk through Scientology from the beginning and simply explain the facts. In this unbiased account of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, many discrediting facts and ideas about the religion have been uncovered. It is precisely these facts that I am going to list that many of Scientology's biggest critics use to defend themselves (in the case of medical professionals) or to explain why religious ideas are simply invalid or false. The quote from L. Ron Hubbard is this, which was said in 1938 in a letter to his first wife ten years before the development of his religion. He said: "I have high hopes of writing my name into history so violently that it will take on legendary form...that goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned (Los Angeles Times about this series, p. 1)." This quote is put forward to explain that L. Ron Hubbard simply created this religion as a way to make a name for himself. It is also used to attempt to demonstrate that L.