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Desperate to hurt Going Clear‘s Oscar chances, Scientology goes down a dangerous path

We’re still jonesing for the next issue of Scientology’s propaganda magazine, Freedom, which completely missed putting out an issue in October. The magazine had been chugging along with monthly issues after it was retooled and relaunched in July 2014 with a new, very earnest focus on issues of the day rather than goofy attacks on […]

Jefferson Hawkins: What those Scientologists in yellow T-shirts at a disaster scene really want

Jefferson Hawkins was once the top marketing executive for the Church of Scientology and helped it reach its greatest extent with the famous “volcano” TV ads in the 1980s. He’s told his tale of getting into and out of the church with his excellent books Counterfeit Dreams and Leaving Scientology, and he’s previous written a […]

Hey, Miscavige, quit calling Leah Remini names and produce your wife already

[Leah Remini, Lt. Andre Dawson, Shelly Miscavige]

“Hurricane Leah,” former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder has dubbed it, and as the Leah Remini media storm continues, we’re just trying to keep up with all of the reactions to her landmark book, […]

Hey, Mark Bunker, what’s taking that film of yours — ‘Knowledge Report’ — so long?

Last month, we had the opportunity to attend the premiere of Louis Theroux’s fun new film My Scientology Movie at the London Film Festival. After the screening, we were invited by the producers to have a drink, and Louis came over to have a talk. We engaged in about an hour’s worth of nonstop talk […]

Ten years ago, ‘South Park’ rocked Scientology in a way it’s never recovered from

On November 16, it will be ten years since Comedy Central first aired the South Park episode titled “Trapped in the Closet.” The episode brought to many people their first exposure to the wacky contents of Scientology’s secret Operating Thetan Level Three material, in which founder L. Ron Hubbard explains that each of us is […]

Chapter by chapter, the best parts of Leah Remini’s book ‘Troublemaker’

Last week, we revealed the contents of numerous “Knowledge Reports” — spying dispatches — that Scientologists submitted about Leah Remini, and which form the basis for some of the most important parts of her new book coming out tomorrow, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. We were careful, at that time, just to stick to the […]

At the end of our journey, we offer thanks to this website’s supporters

[Journey’s end — with What’sup in Perth]

When this post pops up at 7 am New York time, it will be 7 pm in Perth, Australia, and your proprietor will be starting the final event on our book tour with the help of Channel 7 journalist Bryan […]

From our man in Europe: Details on the Dutch denial of tax exemption to Scientology

Jonny Jacobsen

Our man in Paris, Jonny Jacobsen, fills us in on some details about this week’s decision by a Dutch appeals court that Scientology should not get tax exemption in that country because of the prices it charges…

A Dutch tax court on Wednesday denied Scientology the tax-exempt status of a public benefit organisation, […]

The technology of ‘ruining’ people: Jefferson Hawkins on Scientology’s opening pitch

Two years after Scientology’s ‘Super Power’ debuted, it’s still a flop

The Telegraph yesterday posted a number of photos from inside the “new” Scientology Flag Building in Clearwater, which actually opened a couple of years ago. (This isn’t even the first time we’ve seen actual photos from inside the building, which we brought you in 2013.) The occasion, the newspaper said, was that the photos had […]

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