Analog, under the name Astounding Science Fiction, was where Hubbard's Dianetics was first published. (Scientology, of course, keeps trying to retro-edit this to claim that a brief mention in Explorer magazine was first publication and a science-fiction magazine was just incidental. Yeah, right.)

In The Alternate View column, Jeffery D. Kooistra looks back:

"Apart from SF, Campbell like to champion all kinds of interesting, flaky, and far-out ideas. Most readers are at least familiar with some of these. Dianetics is probably the first one that comes to mind. Other will recall the Dean Drive or the Hieronymous Machine. The first of these took on a life of its own (just ask Tom Cruise). The other two also still have people supporting the claim."

-- Ron of that ilk.

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