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The Scientology oversharer becomes a faith healer: It’s a Dianetics miracle!

While we wait for the Danny Masterson jury to come back from its holiday week, we thought we’d catch up with one of our favorite Scientology oversharers to see what she’s been up []

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Ukrainian refugees might think twice about Scientology offering ‘help’

[Scheduled to perform: Ukrainian singer Maryna Odolska]

Ireland is such a strange animal in the Scientology universe. In the last Irish census, only 87 people — yes, 87, in a country of 5 million souls — identified themselves as Scientologists. But that hasn’t prevented church leader David Miscavige from spending tens of millions there in recent []

Endorsed by the Oregonian, Scientology school is full steam ahead with its real purpose

 Remember not too long ago we said that Scientology’s expensive boarding school, the Delphian, was named best small employer in the state of Oregon by the state’s largest newspaper, the []

YouTuber takes a deep dive into Teami Blends and its connections to Scientology

[Adi Arezzini of Teami Blends]

Several weeks ago we heard from YouTuber Mary Betsy, who had some questions for us about Scientology and a family we’ve mentioned in numerous posts over the years, the []

A Balance of Nature employee wanted to prove Scientology’s influence, so they sent video

[L. Ron Hubbard’s blue WISE manuals sit on desks at Balance of Nature]

Last year in February we revealed that an employee at the dietary supplement company Balance of Nature had contacted us, wanting to expose that the company has a cozy relationship with the Church of []

Scientology holds its ‘Writers of the Future’ awards back on schedule, same garish display

 After having its schedule disrupted for a couple of years by the pandemic, Scientology’s sci-fi front operation, “L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers & Illustrators of the Future” is back to having its Achievement Awards gala in the []

Scientology enlisting police to indoctrinate kids? Sure, why not!

 Last month we told you that, thanks to a “reply all” accident, we’d learned that some in the Dutch government consider Scientology a “controversial” organization and are keeping a wary eye on its floating cathedral, the vessel Freewinds, as it spends time in Dutch islands of the []

Chill EB? Joy Villa? Kuba Ka? All hail the next Scientology celebrity superstar: Wicked Witch!

 If you go to the Super Bowl tomorrow in Los Angeles, you might run into Scientologists handing out copies of The Way to Happiness and pamphlets from Drug Free World. And if you’re lucky, the person who hands you that DFW literature is a music hustler by the name of Wicked []

Lose weight, regrow hair, and best of all, help an OT 8 donate to Scientology!

 One of our tipsters noticed that a Scientologist in Tampa was going on and on about a new business there, one that offered “body sculpting” along with some odd claims about regrowing hair. []

Who will cry for ‘fallen artists’ like Elvis and Hemingway if not Scientology?

 We were shocked to learn that a monumental event held at Scientology’s Citizens Commission for Human Rights storefront in Clearwater, Florida — featuring an art show celebrating such major stars like Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson — had resulted in a video that only had 31 views after nearly two []