{"id":329159,"date":"2010-02-17T00:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2010-02-17T00:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:49:33","slug":"early-quackery-from-l-ron-hubbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/329159","title":{"rendered":"Early quackery from L. Ron Hubbard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Quite the scientific instrument from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/76796742\/in-gallery\/25371\/30-dumb-inventions\" >the hack writer and\u00a0fantasist<\/a>\/creator\u00a0of scientology.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hubbard Electrometer, 1968\" src=\"http:\/\/cache3.asset-cache.net\/xc\/76796742.jpg?v=1&amp;c=IWSAsset&amp;k=2&amp;d=77BFBA49EF87892140FEB0FF7845C57D8E14CD65B9A61604A9DFFD74ED9514B197A66ACC661DF1B1\" alt=\"Hubbard Electrometer, 1968\" width=\"437\" height=\"594\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes &#8220;scream when sliced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>In this photo:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/search\/?q0=l.+ron+hubbard\">L. Ron Hubbard<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"divImageByLineCredits\">Photo: Evening Standard\/Getty Images<\/h3>\n<p>Jan 01, 1968<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6759\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6759&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite the scientific instrument from the hack writer and\u00a0fantasist\/creator\u00a0of scientology. From the link: American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes &#8220;scream when sliced.&#8221; In this photo:\u00a0L. Ron Hubbard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}