It’s old, but if you haven’t read it before it’s new to you.

The “Section III OT” materials as written by L. Ron Hubbard in late 1966 remain in use to-date by Scientology as a heavily promoted and very expensive course (over 3k British pounds). The materials mostly revolve around a statement of events “recalled” by Hubbard that supposedly occurred on earth 75 million years ago. Section III OT then applies “Dianetics”, which is claimed to be a science of mental health, using the events as essential information. My paper checks Hubbard’s statement against the known geological record for the time, finding that nearly all of the listed locations didn’t exist then and that other available evidence contradicts the general story.

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