All About Radiation

by L. Ron Hubbard, Gene Denk, Farley R. Spink

Get the straight facts about how radiation is affecting you and your body. What is radiation? What are the real dangers of radiation? Can you keep yourself healthy if exposed to radiation? Can you safeguard your family against radiation ? What should you do in the event of radioactive fallout? In All About Radiation, best-selling self improvement author L. Ron Hubbard presents clear, concise data about radiation and its effects-data you can use to deal with one of today’s most serious health threats.

Genres: Religion

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.

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Reviews

[Mach-won]

What have I learned from this book other than Hubbard pretending to be a Medical doctor named Dr. Spink and making wild claims such as Scientology cure radiation burns? Nothing.

If you would like to learn about radiation that is more accurate and just as deep. Take a 8th grader, put him in a nuclear physics class, and have him explain it to you. You will probably get similar basic concepts and perhaps some of the same misunderstanding Hubbard has in this book but without all the Scientology mumbo-jumbo.

This also contains a lot of crazy Scientology beliefs that was an embarrassment to the "church" the no longer publish this volume. So much for "stadard tech."

Too bad they don't allow 0 stars :<

[Calle]

The book starts out with a section written (probably by LRH) under the pseudonym "Medicus" about radiation and its effects. I don't know enough about this subject to know how reliable this information is, but it hardly matters. The main part of the book consists of lectures given by LRH on the topic of radiation and the main point of these seem to be that if you've got Scientology, you don't need to worry about nuclear war.

If you're looking for information about radiation and nuclear war, this book is worthless, but if you're interested in the history of Scientology, this book is an interesting curiosity that gives some insight into the Cold War era paranoia that shaped Hubbard's religion. This book is rarely, if ever, promoted by the Church of Scientology anymore, and for good reason.

[Einzige]

An eclectic collection of works by Hubbard (with this being a rare book where he claims the title of doctor) on the subject of radiation as well as some semi related subjects like curing brainwashing and creating peace in the Middle East.

Also notable for being a publication from when Scientology was more cavalier about making explicit medical claims - most notably a vitamin mix which can treat radiation and flush cancer out of people*

It had an interesting discussion point on hysteria about nuclear weapons being a more pressing issue than radiation itself but that wasn't enough to carry the book. For people who are interested in seeing what Hubbard is like when talking about matters that aren't explicitly Scientology/Dianetics his book Scientology a New Slant of Life is a better choice.

*Dianazene runs out radiation - or what appears to be radiation. It also proofs a person up against radiation in some degree. It also turns on and runs out incipient cancer. I have seen it run out skin cancer. A man who didn't have much liability to skin cancer (only had a few moles) took Dianazene. His whole jaw turned into a raw mass of cancer. He kept on taking Dianazene and it disappeared after a while. I was looking at a case of cancer that might have happened

For those interested the formula Dianazene is as follows (and is to be taken all at once, once a day with milk and chocolate):

- Nictonic Acid: 200 mg
- Iron Ferrous gluconate: 10 grains
- Vitamin B1: 25 mg
- Vitamin B2 - Riboflavin: 50 mg
- Vitamin C -Ascorbic acid: 200–500 mg
-Dicalcium phosphate: 15-20 grains

[Chris]

I acquired this book at an estate sale from a late Scientologist. It sat on the bookshelf for quite some time but I decided "what the hell! I'll knock this out in a day or two". Were it not for its diminutive quality I would probably have tossed it early.

It starts off innocent enough, with a more emotional tone to the effects of radiation. but the author makes no qualms with immediately injecting Scientology into the mix after about the first chapter. From then on it's a rollercoaster ride of rambling thoughts and incoherent ideas all haphazardly sutured together, as the author flits from topic to topic, often times contradicting himself from paragraph to paragraph. towards the end, the seed of some argument about man being his own worst enemy is planted, which seems reasonable enough. But before it's permitted to germinate it is quickly dashed by the fever dream structure that follows. Overall comical but fundamentally useless as originally intended.