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Evidence that Scientology is still taking Sea Org women to clinics for forced abortions

[Peter Mansell]

One of the most shocking revelations about Scientology abuses, and one of the best documented, was Tom Tobin’s masterful reporting in 2010 about the church’s decades-long policy of forcing women in the Sea Org to undergo unwanted []

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How do we know the ‘Chase Wave’ happened? ‘Aftermath’ guest Mark Fladd: ‘I was part of it’

[Mark and Stephanie Fladd on ‘Aftermath’]

On Sunday, we told you about a document that had been leaked to us: It purported to be directions for Scientology’s registrars to follow as they were pressuring members to open up multiple Chase Bank credit cards in order to saddle those members with huge debts. The process was called []

DOCUMENT LEAK: Did the ‘Chase Wave’ cause a blacklisting of Scientology?

 An “under the radar” Scientologist — someone who is considered an active member by the church, but who is actually reading “entheta” websites like this one — reached out to us with a startling []

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 []