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Returning to Clearwater with a Miscavige cutout and memories of the Lisa McPherson Trust

[Jeff brought a life-size cutout with him, that card]

Way back in 1999, we wrote a story for the Phoenix New Times about a local resident who was getting the full “Fair Game” treatment from the Church of Scientology. Jeff Jacobsen was a knowledgeable church critic who had alerted the world to the plight of a […]

Why Scientology has no business pontificating on mental health — a discussion

Whether it’s about the shocking way people have been treated at a remote Tennessee facility, or the infamous death of a woman in Florida, for years we’ve been writing about Scientology’s poor record of handling the needs of the mentally ill. Now, Chris Shelton and Sunny Pereira are beginning a series of discussions specifically about […]

A new academic book takes apart Scientology and pop culture, and the apologists hate it

We have to apologize to University of Alberta Professor Stephen A. Kent. He sent us a copy of his newest book ages ago, and we simply haven’t had time to do more than leaf through […]

Before Scientology was a ‘church,’ L. Ron Hubbard said religion controlled people with lies

[L. Ron Hubbard, circa 1952]

It’s one of those L. Ron Hubbard quotes that gets brought up a lot, especially by those who want to make the point that the “Church” of Scientology really isn’t one at […]

Our prayers are answered — Freedom magazine is coming to Scientology television!

You can hardly imagine our glee when we opened the special issue of Freedom magazine that hit Scientology’s website yesterday and found what’s going to be coming soon to the Scientology television […]

Scientology buys another derelict building in order to pretend that it’s expanding wildly

[Future Brescia Ideal Org]

Rod Keller continues to keep us up to date on David Miscavige’s precious Ideal Org program as it continues to buy up empty buildings around the […]

On Day One, 2018’s Writers of the Future party betrays its connection to Scientology’s abuses

[Contest winners greeted on their first day at this week’s festivities.]

Sunday night, Scientology will put on its annual gala to celebrate the winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest. As in past years, we’ll take a peek at some of the annual broadcast to see how many of the […]

Is Scientology really any different than other ‘churches’? Oh, you bet. Here’s one example.

[The “target” Scientology’s Freedom magazine put on Sara Goldberg for appearing in Going Clear]

An 81-year-old former Catholic priest, Australia-born but today living in France, contacted us yesterday to tell us about his […]

What do super powers smell like? For around 30 grand, Scientology can help you with that.

Is Scientology TV taking requests? We have to admit that we enjoyed the network’s show about its L. Ron Hubbard archives (a program that held back key information, of course, but was still pretty eye-opening) and we’d like to see a similarly revealing piece about another of Scientology’s most nutty facilities…

Super […]

Scientology cranks up its ‘noisy’ investigation of Leah Remini, and she fires back

Last week, we told you that Leah Remini has come under a new round of what appears to be a Scientology “noisy” investigation. Since then, we are learning that the operation has kicked into high […]

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