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Has it really been almost 16 years since Hurricane Wilma zipped across Florida after doing incredible damage in Mexico? We happened to be in the path of Mrs. Flintstone, and we never want to be stuck in such a nightmarish storm again. We were without power for a week. Continue reading The country’s 6th largest school district is helping a Scientology front group reach kids
The San Francisco Giants put Tom Cruise on the Jumbotron last night during Game 2 of the division series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. This set off a storm on Twitter, with lots of jokes about how puffy Tom looked (again) and wondering if he was preparing to play recently deceased SNL comedian Norm MacDonald in a biopic. Hardy har har. Continue reading Tom Cruise, looking puffy again between movie shoots, gets booed at SF game
[Paul Pflueger and his target, Paulette Cooper]When we were doing the reporting for our 2015 book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, we did our best to find Scientologists who might finally come forward and talk about what they put Paulette through from 1969 to 1985 during one of the most frightening campaigns of “Fair Game” harassment of a journalist the church ever unleashed. Continue reading He was Scientology ‘I/C’ — ‘in charge’ — of Paulette Cooper’s harassment. And now he’s dead.
Some of you know that your proprietor is a stargazer and telescope nerd. And besides our personal journeys through the night sky, we’ve also dabbled in some astronomy journalism. Working on a piece we wrote in 1997 about the author of an amazing guidebook to the heavens, Robert Burnham Jr., remains one of our most treasured experiences. Continue reading Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s cosmos: An ancient battlefield shot through with ‘psychs’
We’ve been keeping an eye on so many scammers in Scientology in recent years, it doesn’t surprise us too much to learn that we overlooked one. Continue reading Scientology OT, after having scam shut down, tests the waters for a comeback
We knew it was a longshot, but it was still disappointing to learn yesterday that the US Supreme Court was not interested in taking up Valerie Haney’s petition alleging that Scientology’s binding contract about “religious arbitration” is a violation of her religious rights. Continue reading US Supreme Court denies Valerie Haney; CA court gets letters on Scientology’s ‘neutrality’
[Scientology’s Nashville Celebrity Centre]Now that we’re plunging into our tenth year together, dear readers, we appreciate more than ever what our longtime regulars bring to the feast. Continue reading Is this a list of all of Scientology’s active subsidiary corporations that a tipster fed us?
[The Pasadena org, when it was boarded up last year]Scientology’s ‘Ideal Org’ in Pasadena, California is less ideal today after an intoxicated man broke the glass of its front door by kicking it on Friday evening. Continue reading Pasadena drunk kicks hole in Scientology door: Will this ‘hate crime’ be blamed on Leah Remini?
The Underground Bunker asked former Sea Org official Chris Shelton to dig into a new academic paperback about Scientology, which is the latest issue of a journal called Implicit Religion. We think you’ll find Chris’s take in this first piece, which he comes at admitting his own personal biases, fascinating. In my limited experience with the “Cult Wars” that have been waged for a few decades now in the world of academia, I’ve perceived that there are three groups of scholars from varying disciplines feuding over the idea of coercive control, what new religious groups are and aren’t, and whether or not a group can actually be “destructive” or not. Continue reading Academics who ignore defectors as ‘apostates’ will never see Scientology for what it is
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