It is certainly true that Study Tech does not mention the word "Scientology." But this is only because that word has systematically been removed from the Study Tech books. In every other respect, Study Tech is entirely derived from Scientology. Much of its training materials is taken directly from Scientology religious works, often word-for-word.
L. Ron Hubbard had many controversial theories and teachings that he wrote and shared. The scientific community repeatedly tried to replicate his results with no success.
- "There is no such thing as a fat cell"
- " Human beings evolved from clams who were preyed upon by birds"
- "What would happen if you put in three nights a week at two hours a session? That adds up to six hours a week, doesn't it? How long does that take to get to a hundred hours? Sixty-six and two-thirds, is that right? Well, six and two-thirds weeks."
- "Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
- "Radiation is apparently enormously water-soluble as well as water removable. According to researchers, one merely has to take a hose to a building surface or a road to wash the radiation off of it. This factor is well known to defense trained personnel.
- "The spirits of most humans go to Mars for reprogramming when their bodies die"
- "This quarter of the Universe is ours. And it’s so much quarter of the universe, and this is so lost in the middle of it that there’s been no command post occupied for this system now since 1150 A.D., at the time when a group on Mars was finally abolished and vanished, and so forth, and nobody took any interest in this system. This system has been running wild since that time."
- "You find somebody running around the planet Jupiter, he'd be built to withstand that climatic condition, and the gravitic condition and so forth, and his legs might be a bit modified and his arms and that sort of thing, but he would probably look like an Eskimo."
- "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them."
- "The names and connections, at this time, of the bitterly opposing enemy are: 1. Psychiatry and psychology (not medicine). 2. The heads of news media who are also directors of psychiatric front groups. 3. A few key political figures in the fields of "mental health" and education. 4. A decline of monetary stability caused by the current planning of bankers who are also directors of psychiatric front organizations [that] would make us unable to function."
- "I’m drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys." - L.Ron Hubbard in a 1967 letter to his wife, written during the period when he was creating Scientology's secret "upper levels."
- "Benzedrine often helps a case run." ["Run a case" = administer Dianetics or Scientology procedures to someone]