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13,046 DAYS: David Miscavige goes ahead of L. Ron Hubbard as leader of Scientology

[Illustration by Observer]

On May 9, 1950, L. Ron Hubbard began what would become the Scientology movement by publishing his bestseller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. For the next three and a half decades he oversaw Scientology’s growth.

Then, on January 24, 1986, Hubbard died in seclusion on a ranch near Creston, California. In the […]

He was a student and teacher at Scientology’s elite boarding schools: Now he’s dishing

Scientology’s boarding school The Delphian in Oregon — where wealthy Scientologists send their kids for indoctrination in the L. Ron Hubbard way and also where the church recruits for the Sea Org — has been in the news here at the Bunker a couple of times […]

The country’s 6th largest school district is helping a Scientology front group reach kids

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 […]

Tom Cruise, looking puffy again between movie shoots, gets booed at SF game

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 […]

He was Scientology ‘I/C’ — ‘in charge’ — of Paulette Cooper’s harassment. And now he’s dead.

[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 […]

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s cosmos: An ancient battlefield shot through with ‘psychs’

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 […]

Scientology OT, after having scam shut down, tests the waters for a comeback

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 […]

Scientology’s evangelist is coming to town, and he wants to discuss your origin, thetan

Michael Chan, live! Is there anything more thrilling, Scientology […]

US Supreme Court denies Valerie Haney; CA court gets letters on Scientology’s ‘neutrality’

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 […]

Is this a list of all of Scientology’s active subsidiary corporations that a tipster fed us?

[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 […]

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