Lafayette Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer who lived on a boat with 14 little children and wrote crappy novels who engaged in the ultimate experiment: to create a religion founded on utter bullshit, yet endowed with the sociological and psychological components that "make religions work". To that end he wrote "Dianetics", proving to all the World just how mediocre a writer he was, and yet how gullible some people are. His enduring fame is that his "joke religion" called Scientology to this day actually still exists.