The Sydney Morning Herald:

However, observers suggest Mr Packer&#8217-s expanding casino empire has presented issues difficult to reconcile with Scientologist beliefs. Scientology&#8217-s founder, the science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, denounced gambling. &#8220-An obsessive gambler is a psychotic just like a drug addict or an alcoholic,&#8221- Hubbard wrote in 1977.

Wikipedia

Old BBC story

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Previous blog posts by Chris F. Masse:

• Become “friend” with me on Google E-Mail so as to share feed items with me within Google Reader.
• Nigel Eccles’ flawed “vision” about HubDub shows that he hasn’t any.
• How does InTrade deal with insider trading?
• Modern Life
• “The Beacon” is an excellent blog published by The Independent Institute.
• The John Edwards Non-Affair… is making Memeorandum (twice), again.
• Prediction Markets = marketplaces for information trading… and for separating the wheat from the chaff.