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Scientology admits in planning docs it expects only 6 walk-ins daily at new facility

We have a great new report from our man Graham in […]

Foreign ‘expansion,’ thanks to US Scientologists forking over the millions

Rod Keller keeps us up on the latest news about Scientology’s plans for […]

Paulette Cooper’s ‘Scandal of Scientology’: The book that made Miss Lovely a target

This week we’re looking back at ‘The Scandal of Scientology,’ a book that drove L. Ron Hubbard to distraction. It was written by a New York magazine writer named Paulette Cooper, who was only 28 when it came out on June 1, 1971. Even before its publication, Paulette became an obsession with Hubbard as he […]

Scientology gets away with abuses because it has friends like author Orson Scott Card

Once again, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future awards ceremony is upon us, and once again it provides a clear example of how Scientology manages to go year after year without a reckoning for its […]

Scientology’s bogus ‘arbitration’: The Garcia appeal brief is here, and it’s a beauty

[The Garcias and their appellate attorney, Philip M. Burlington]

We love a good appeal brief. If you read a lot of legal documents like we do, you get used to a lot of turgid stuff that, while highly important to a case, is a slog to get through. […]

A stunning Scientology call to arms for our politically divided times on this dirt ball

It’s not too often that we’re treated to a broadside like the one Scientologist Jeff Pomerantz shared with his fellow Hubbardites […]

Thetans in the Jungle: Scientology in Papua New Guinea’s Highlands

[Boys from the village of Napamogona. Photo by Charles Fourtree.]

Chris Owen provides yet another startling look at Scientology history that you probably haven’t heard […]

Sword-wielding, Bentley-driving man killed by police at Scientology org identified

[Brian Statler in 2015]

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has identified the sword-wielding man who was fatally shot Wednesday by police at the Inglewood Scientology Ideal Org as Brian Statler of West Los Angeles, who was 30 years […]

Scientology is putting Ideal Orgs in every country where it operates — except one

Rod Keller keeps an eye on the Ideal Org racket David Miscavige is running, and he notices something very […]

Leaving Scientology’s ‘Sea Org’ isn’t easy, and some turn to desperate measures

Why do people do extreme things to disqualify themselves from the Sea Org? You’ve heard harrowing stories about Sea Org members making suicide threats and suicide attempts, making hazardous attempts to run away, and some have even threatened to go to the press just to get themselves out of the Sea Org. A Sea Org […]

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