[DallasBiff]

I remember back when I was kid, Hubbard’s book “Dienetics” seemed to be at every checkout counter, just like the “National Enquirer”.

[Ciaphas Cain]

There was an episode of the Fox show Millennium, 25 years or so ago, that mocked Scientology. Among other things the "Selfosophists" would get every copy of their late founder's books off the store shelves, bring them to the register for purchase, then the books would be distributed BACK to the stores from the publisher, completely unread. It was how the cult members made sure that their founder's books were constantly on the bestsellers list.

The real life Scientologists got REALLY mad when that show poked holes into their ideology LOL

[Allegra]

I remember back when I was kid, Hubbard’s book “Dienetics” seemed to be at every checkout counter, just like the “National Enquirer”.

Yes, and there was always a group of people on college campuses manning a table full of those books and offering to give people “free intelligence tests.”

Fortunately, I had been warned about this scam and was able to resist their slimy tactics. They could be awfully persistent sometimes, though. And they snagged two acquaintances of mine.