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Scientology is desperate to get its clutches on your children. Here’s proof.

 From time to time, we post mailers from the Church of Scientology that indicate how desperate the organization has become because of declining membership. But this is twice now that we’ve seen this particular mailer go out, targeting children, and the desperation here is off the []

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YouTube permanently shutters channel that exposed Scientology’s bigotry

[Abdul Malik Sayyid (Tony) Muhammad]

A researcher who goes by the moniker Independent Scientology News has learned that YouTube rejected his appeal and permanently shut down his channel for posting videos that were “severe violations of ourCommunity Guidelines on Hate []

Scientology is hiring for a drug rehab whose location is a secret

 Scientology is keeping a secret: The location of its new Continental Narconon in Australia. []

How Scientology is likely going to come back at the explosive new lawsuits

[A Scientology lawyer scrum]

The Jane Doe lawsuit filed by a powerhouse legal team on Tuesday, accusing the Church of Scientology and its leader David Miscavige of false imprisonment, kidnapping, stalking, libel, slander, human trafficking, labor violations, and negligence, has naturally produced a big media reaction and cheers from ex-Scientologists and longtime Scientology []

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, ‘Provost Marshal’: Another apologist claim debunked

 I’m a guyA guy who seems calm but plays when he playsA guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comesA guy who has bulging ideas rather than musclesAdvertisement (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); That kind of guy

South Korean K-pop star Psy’s 2012 megahit Gangnam Style satirises posers and wannabes who put on airs []

HOWDYCON 2019 IS HERE — HOLLYWOOD IS CLEAR!

 It’s time for this website’s annual little meetup, and this year, wow, do we have a lot to talk about. David Miscavige is being sued again, with more lawsuits coming, as a stellar legal team has decided to draw a line in the []

Ignore the apologists: Yes, L. Ron Hubbard lied about having an engineering degree

[L. Ron Hubbard and W.F.G. Swann]

[Make sure you don’t miss yesterday’s late-breaking news about Scientology and David Miscavige being sued in a new lawsuit.]

It only recently came to our attention that an apologist journal, CESNUR, published a couple of breathless articles in recent months trying to prove that L. Ron Hubbard never claimed to have []

Church of Scientology and David Miscavige sued for abuse by major legal players

[Attorney Brian Kent]

We’re posting this press release in its entirety. We heard something like this was coming, and we have reason to believe there is more on the []

Wise Beard Man on the ballot in Scientology’s mecca? Mark Bunker on why he’s running

We were on the road last week when Mark Bunker announced that he planned to run for office in Clearwater. We finally had a chance to catch up with him, and asked if he might give us some kind of statement about why he wants to run. We’re very glad he responded with this []

Mike Rinder returns to Scientology’s secretive Int Base! Well, sort of.

 Erin Hodges Plumb has done it again. We’ve documented her daring excursions in the past, and this time she let us know that she’d once again gotten access to Scientology’s “Int Base” in Riverside County, California. This time for a charity []