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After Scientologist is outed, leaders he fooled still stick up for his quack drug theories

 Rod Keller’s story last week kicked up a bit of a fuss, and so he’s back with a []

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An enduring myth in Scientology — that L. Ron Hubbard actually read your letters

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend []

Trouble for Scientology in 1966: When the Daily Mail called L. Ron Hubbard’s degrees ‘bogus’

 Our helper is back who dives through obscure newspaper archives in search of forgotten Scientology history. Last time, he found for us a really remarkable 1968 interview of L. Ron Hubbard when a Daily Mail reporter, Peter Smith, tracked him down on his ship in Bizerte, Tunisia. []

Scientology strikes back at Leah Remini as publicity for her upcoming series explodes

 On Monday, we told you that Leah Remini had been stalked while filming her upcoming A&E series on Scientology, which premieres on November 29. She’d also shared with us that her production company had received a lot of aggressive letters from the church, just as other recent shows and documentaries about Scientology have []

What the first trailer for Leah Remini’s Scientology series tells us about her show

 Last night, the A&E network released a trailer for Leah Remini’s upcoming series about Scientology, and wow, does it look great. []

Hillary Clinton has considered David Miscavige’s appeals lawyer for the US Supreme Court

 Over the last couple of weeks, several news organizations have written about a John Podesta email published by Wikileaks which suggests that even before US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on February 13, the Hillary Clinton campaign had considered a replacement for him, an African-American attorney named Wallace Jefferson who is a []

Leah Remini reveals that she’s been stalked during production of her new TV series

 Leah Remini’s A&E television series about the Church of Scientology premieres on November 29, but it’s been filming for months. And in that time, Leah and her production crew have been subject to the usual reaction from the church itself including threatening letters, surveillance, and in Denver an encounter that was especially []

Scientology will go after your kids with its quack ideas on drugs — even at a Christian school

Rod Keller keeps an eye on social media for us, and this week he dives into another Scentology infiltration that was hiding in plain []

Amassing the real history of Scientology has been a long and dramatic relay race

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the book for sale, and for more than three years he’s been helping us sift through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that tend []

Talking with Tiponi Grey, who quit her Scientology job and announced it on YouTube

 It was a video that lasted only 14 seconds. Long enough for a woman named Tiponi Grey to make a short statement behind a pair of large sunglasses…

“Hello, world. I am Tiponi Grey Magi. And I am no longer employed with the Church of Scientology. Thank you and have a wonderful []