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Scientologists use faith healing to convince fire victims they’re actually helping

 Australia’s largest city, Sydney, is surrounded by brush fires. Smoke covered the city this week leading some residents to seek medical attention. Six have died so far and more than 2.5 million acres and hundreds of homes have been burned. As we reported last year, disasters of this scale are an opportunity for Scientology to []

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In Touch sold out to Enquirer’s parent, so now it starts up with the Tom-foolery

 Last year, German publishing giant Bauer sold In Touch magazine to American Media Inc., the company that owns the National Enquirer. []

Scientology leader David Miscavige threatens to out Jane Does suing Danny Masterson

[David Miscavige, dapper ecclesiastical pontiff]

Over the last couple of days, we’ve been telling you that David Miscavige is challenging a lawsuit that names him as a defendant. It’s the lawsuit that four women have filed against Scientologist actor Danny Masterson over allegations of violent rape, and also allegations that Miscavige and Scientology retaliated against them []

Scientology not only wants Danny Masterson rape lawsuit quashed, it wants sanctions

[Team Miscavige: Riffer, Forman, Hinks]

Yesterday we told you that when we learned Scientology leader David Miscavige notified the Los Angeles Superior Court that he had been improperly served a lawsuit regarding rape allegations against Scientologist actor Danny Masterson, we took a stab at what we thought might be the argument his attorneys would be []

Scientology leader David Miscavige: Screw your lawsuit, you didn’t serve me properly

[David Miscavige: Catch me if you can]

In a classic case of Scientology legal calisthenics, David Miscavige’s attorneys have informed the Los Angeles Superior Court that it is moving to quash Miscavige’s participation as a defendant in a lawsuit filed August 22, claiming that notice of the lawsuit wasn’t served on the Scientology leader []

Nan McLean, 1923-2019: One of the bravest women who ever exposed Scientology’s abuses

[Nan with Jon Atack in Toronto in 2015]

Last night, we learned from Nan McLean’s granddaughter Phaedra Fairwell that Nan, a veteran of vicious Fair Game attacks after leaving Scientology and going public in the 1970s, died yesterday at Southlake Regional Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario. She was 96 years []

SCIENTOLOGY DOCUMENT LEAKS: Stunning new revelations span the 1960s to 2017

 Some time ago, we were fortunate to get access to new documents about Scientology released by the FBI to dogged Freedom of Information Act journalist Emma Best and the Muckrock []

Scientology’s sleep cures are enough to keep you up at night

 The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has a new article on its blog that deserves comment. CCHR has a harder time than other Scientology front groups who can keep their writings based on some truth in their chosen issue. Foundation for a Drug Free World can write truthfully about how using illegal drugs is []

Scientology banned his book and trashed him as an apostate. Here’s his full-throated reply!

 Last Saturday, we had fun posting a 1995 Scientology bulletin that banned Scientologists from reading the 1989 ancient aliens book The Gods of Eden and warned against interacting with its author, former church member William Bramley. In our comments section, Bramley reached out to us and said he was interested in answering Scientology’s criticisms of []

The new leaders of ‘Scientology’ tell us about their fight to free the world

[Meet the new owners of the Sea Org, Christopher (Left) and Matthew Brady]

We want to thank the reader who stumbled upon something strange in the state of Florida’s files, and thought we’d be interested in it. []