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Take Scientology’s quiz to see if you qualify for the Sea Org and its billion-year contract!

Remember Jasper? We featured his Sea Org advertisement the other day, but we noticed later that it was a mailer from the New York org that encouraged Scientologists to fill out a questionnaire to test their interest in joining that most theta of Scientology initiatives, the Sea […]

Jon Atack and Mike Rinder on Scientology’s wackiest book: ‘A History of Man’

We’re very glad that Jon and Mike have taken on this awesome task, and you might also look at the fun we had when we read this most insane of Scientology textbooks with biologist PZ Myers in 2013. Now, here’s Jon’s introduction to today’s video, which is worth the price of admission all on its […]

Scientology ‘Hogwarts’ in Oregon has Covid outbreak: 43 students, 8 staff

[Illustration by Observer]

The Oregon Health Authority in May reported that Delphian School in Sheridan had one of the biggest school-based Covid outbreaks in the state: 43 students and 8 staff were […]

‘Global psychiatric obliteration’: Scientology’s ongoing war on psychiatry

[Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston attacking the psychs]

Chris Owen concludes his three-part series on Scientology’s war on psychiatry today. Make sure you don’t miss part one and part two.

Scientology continues to battle psychiatry to this day, but its ‘war’ has shifted focus and tactics since David Miscavige took over as its leader in the 1980s. […]

Defeating the ‘Satan worshippers’: Scientology’s secret war on doctors

Historian Chris Owen’s deep dive into Scientology’s war on the mental health profession continues with part two today. Please see his dynamite part one from yesterday.

In parallel with its overt anti-psychiatry campaign detailed in part one of our series, Scientology also conducted a covert campaign against medical doctors. As far back as the early 1950s, […]

First, do harm: Scientology’s secret war on mental health

We’re happy to say that today begins another epic dive into Scientology by historian Chris Owen. Today, part one of his three-part look at Scientology and its war on the mental health industry.

Few things in Scientology have been more of a constant than its campaign against psychiatry and mental health organisations. L. Ron Hubbard and […]

Can someone let Tom Cruise know that his Scientology bandleader has died?

In 2004, as part of the plan to turn Tom Cruise into the most gung-ho Scientologist on the planet, church leader David Miscavige threw a special surprise birthday party for the Top Gun actor on the church’s private cruise ship, the […]

Ron Miscavige, Scientology whistleblower and father of the church leader, 1936-2021

We just learned that Ron Miscavige has died. His co-author Dan Koon wrote this touching memorial for us, which we are publishing […]

Leaked price list: What it costs to stay at Scientology’s ‘spiritual mecca’ in Florida

[The Fort Harrison Hotel]

Our former OT 8 Scientologist has sent us another trove of pristine materials documenting their trek up the Bridge to Total Freedom. Previously, we’ve shown you some things from the mid 1980s that were in amazing shape. Now, we’ve been given some things from a more contemporary […]

More minor Scientology celebrities making news, and not in a good way

[Eddie Deezen and Marissa Ribisi]

Is Eddie Deezen still a Scientologist? We have to assume he is, because he’s been involved for a very long time (since John Travolta got him interested in Dianetics while they were filming Grease in 1977), and he was most recently mentioned in a Scientology magazine as completing a level, OT […]

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