Scientology’s ‘grass roots’ social media effort is actually led by its most mediocre spokesman

[Ed Parkin in 2016]

Chuck Beatty remembers Ed Parkin as his fellow inmate, his bunkmate, and his jailer.

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Thirty-three years later, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is still surfing the galaxy

It’s a major date on the Scientology calendar today, even if the church itself doesn’t actually celebrate it. And you know, they really should. It was 33 years ago today that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard voluntarily left his hale and fit 74-year-old body in order to continue his upper-level OT researches without the burden of a physical form. He’s been off exploring the outer reaches of understanding ever since.

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Never forget: Scientology calls exes liars, but spells out its own abuses in documents

[An update to one of our saddest stories ever.]

We know that if you read this website and watch Leah Remini’s A&E series, sooner or later the advertising algorithms are going to track you down and swamp you with a lot of Scientology propaganda on your social media feeds or in the form of web ads. You might also end up seeing some of Scientology’s smear websites, most of which operate anonymously, but at least one, aimed at Leah’s show, that doesn’t hide that the Church of Scientology itself operates it.

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Tonight, Leah Remini takes us into the incredible story of Scientology’s Clearwater takeover

[Tonight, ‘Aftermath’ gives Gabe his due.]

Scientology’s very sketchy history in the Florida city of Clearwater gets a nice going over in tonight’s episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.

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Scientology sells miracles, and we can’t get enough of them

[Mr. Ed’s knockin’]

As much as Scientology wants the public to think of it as a totally not weird self-help group that offers things like improved communication and business acumen, the reality is much stranger and, frankly, a lot more interesting.

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Scientology uses celebrities and police as props — military veterans, it’s your turn!

[Founding members Geraldine Malloy, Thomas Malloy, Joey Gatton, Ryan Reese and Amber Reese]

Rod Keller discovers that Scientology is launching yet another front group, and this one is really infuriating…

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New Sea Org escapee says that Scientology still forcing abortions, decade after practice exposed

[Bree Mood]

Chris Shelton has a remarkable story about an escape from the Sea Org for us today, and disturbing new evidence that Scientology has not given up its policy of forcing women to have abortions, even nearly a decade after that policy was exposed by the Tampa Bay Times…

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Filmmakers tell us why they decided to help Scientology with its new TV network

[The Somali national team on its way to a match, 2013]

The 2017 documentary Men in the Arena follows two teenagers trying to make it as soccer players in one of the most dystopian places on earth — battle-ravaged Somalia.

Think Hoop Dreams, but set in a war zone.

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Danny Masterson’s attorneys pounce on A&E’s plans for resurrecting an ‘Aftermath’ episode

[Marty Singer and Leah Remini]

Danny Masterson’s attorneys wasted no time reacting to the news that his accusers will be featured in an upcoming episode of A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.

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Another elderly victim gets soaked by Scientology, is talking to law enforcement

[Scene of the crime, the Advanced Org of Los Angeles (AOLA)]

Last summer, we told you about a shocking case of elder abuse involving a man named Efrem Logreira. He had joined Scientology at the age of 74, and a year later he was almost homeless because Scientology had burdened him with so much debt and then refused to refund him or allow him to attend its events.

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