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                                             July 10, 2012


Frederick Pohl on Van Vogt:

   "Indeed Van Vogt was not entirely unwilling to use actual
   science-- that is, what he considered science-- in his
   stories. He was deeply attached to many of the principles
   set forth by Alfred Korzybski, and even more so to the
   'scientific' work described as 'the Bates eye cure,' a
   putatively revolutionary system for improving vision
   problems by-- if I understood it aright-- taking in as
   much light as possible by gazing at the sun. And there is
   no doubt that Van bought into L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics
   from the beginning, not only following its precepts for
   himself but setting up as a sort of mentor for converts
   who wished to attain the status of 'clear.'

   "He would not, however, have anything to do with the
   changeover to the religion, Scientology, that Hubbard
   developed when Dianetics began to have problems with the
   government. He wouldn’t say why, either, though I asked
   him more than once."

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