The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper

by Tony Ortega

Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Gardner eviscerated Hubbard’s book Dianetics, lumping the science fiction writer in with dozens of other people he considered “cranks.”

“If there should be detected in this Report a note of unrelieved denunciation of Scientology, it is because the evidence has shown its theories to be fantastic and impossible, its principles perverted and ill-founded, and its techniques debased and harmful,” Anderson wrote. “While making an appeal to the public as a worthy system whereby ability, intelligence, and personality may be improved, it employs techniques which further its real purpose of securing domination over and mental enslavement of its adherents. It involves the administration by persons without any training in medicine or psychology of quasi-psychological treatment, which is harmful medically, morally and socially.”

“The night before I was born on May 7, 1934, 8:05 am, the two of them had a vicious fight after a party, and although my mother was approximately five months pregnant, he beat her up. She went into premature labor and I was born,” Nibs wrote about Hubbard and his mother, Margaret “Polly” Grubb.

But Nibs wrote that it was his father who was obsessed with abortion, and related seeing his father sitting on his mother’s stomach at their Bremerton, Washington home in 1941, causing her to have an abortion.