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Spanish news website calls out Scientology volcano vultures at La Palma

A few days ago Scientology put out its usual press releases about how it was at the scene of yet another disaster with its yellow-shirted “Volunteer Ministers,” this time on the island of La Palma in the Canaries where a volcano began erupting on September 19. […]

Scientology holds its ‘Writers of the Future’ awards out of season, but same lavish display

Our readers know that as far back as our Village Voice days, we’ve been trying to warn the science fiction/fantasy world that “Writers & Illustrators of the Future” is a lavish and expensive contest because Scientology uses it to burnish the reputation of L. Ron Hubbard and, by extension, the church […]

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s cosmos: An ancient battlefield shot through with ‘psychs’

Some of you know that your proprietor is a stargazer and telescope nerd. And besides our personal journeys through the night sky, we’ve also dabbled in some astronomy journalism. Working on a piece we wrote in 1997 about the author of an amazing guidebook to the heavens, Robert Burnham Jr., remains one of our most […]

Scientology’s evangelist is coming to town, and he wants to discuss your origin, thetan

Michael Chan, live! Is there anything more thrilling, Scientology […]

On 9/11, Scientology leader’s ‘wake-up call’ was supposed to expand the church

[David Miscavige in 2001, just weeks after 9/11]

On this solemn 20th anniversary, we are continuing to look back at the events that changed our lives in such significant ways on September 11, 2001.

Yesterday, we had a piece at The Daily Beast about Scientology’s reaction to 9/11, and described how Bruce Hines was on the […]

Leah Remini podcast: Ian Rafalko talks about his father, chiropractor Eric Berg

[Ian Rafalko]

You probably remember that we were pretty excited in May to see the TikTok video put out by Ian Rafalko about his father, OT 8 chiropractor and major Scientology donor Eric […]

Underground Bunker readers assemble, and Scientology spies freak out

[Willie and Pan]

Willie and I drove into the city yesterday to meet up with some good friends at the Toronto Scientology Org at 696 Yonge St. Aside from meeting with some awesome people I wanted to have a look to see if Scientology had finally, after years of raising millions of dollars, even gotten started […]

What kind of technical perfection can you expect at Scientology’s mecca, space pilgrim?

We know some of you have your doubts about Scientology’s capacity for actually delivering the superpowers it promises, but there’s no doubt that it is steeped in decades of delivering L. Ron Hubbard’s “technology” as closely as possible to the founder’s […]

The Scientologist who played a role in Tuesday’s historic Blue Origin launch

Woohoo! Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard always predicted that Scientologists would eventually be central to spaceflight on this planet, and it’s finally become […]

Scientology has been desperate to produce results in Texas for a very long time

[Another failed rain dance for Austin?]

I was a Sea Org management executive for the western United States for about nine years, a veritable eternity to hold a single job in the Sea Org. In that capacity and later when doing other Sea Org jobs, I visited almost all of the Scientology churches west of the […]

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