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“Source please?”

there have been a number of excellent books by former, high-ranking Scientologists exposing all of this as well as websites for ex-members, but one of the very best and most comprehensive exposes is this HBO documentary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Clear_%28film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257858/

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear

Hubbard’s wife-beating and alcoholism at the time he invented Scientology is well-documented. Hubbard himself also said early on that the only way to make any real money was to fund a religion. At this time, the “church” is estimated to have only about 50,000 members world wide, yet has a real-estate portfolio worth about 3 billion dollars.

Scientology is no longer even a viable fake religion, but is instead now little more than a tax-free real-estate holding company.

I won't argue that the organization is as rotten and evil as it gets (well there are several worse) but you asserted that the tech didn't work.

That's what I'd like a source for.

Hubbard took a mishmash of things that people did or had done to improve their condition, from talk therapy to various other techniques to improve on's communication skills, to others to improve ones ability to observe realty more fully to techniques to reduce the impact of environmental toxins.

He organized them into a path that many have found helpful.

Yeah he's a fraud, he claimed every single one of them as his own independent invention or discovery.

Yeah he wasn't a nice man.

Yeah he abused a LOT of people.

Worse he set up a system to use a workable technology to abuse people en masse.

And he didn't have the sense to put in safeguards to insure it wasn't used against him.

He died in isolation under the care of the very people who would vastly benefit from his demise.

Cerebral hemorrhage, or so it was said, no autopsy, prompt cremation. Dr Gene Denk had him on Coumadin, a blood thinning agent also sold as a rat poison under the brand name warfarin. It causes death by hemorrhage and internal bleeding.

I knew Dr Denk, and I doubt very seriously that he caused Hubbard's death, but it would have been so very very easy for anyone in his retenue to deliberately or accidentally give him an overdose.

That being said, the tech itself works, like any other tool, it can be used for good or evil. The current ownership chose poorly.