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Scientology & the Feds: Why the church is celebrating despite news of an SEC probe

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What a great result for a recent Wall Street Journal investigation, evidence suggesting an SEC probe is happening as a result. But Scientology is feeling good about the feds this week after the Department […]

When the evil psychs secretly paid for information about Scientology!

[Patty gave them the lowdown about CCHR, all right]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Now it can be revealed: When the psychiatrist’s association secretly paid for a presentation about Scientology’s war on their profession, and heard from some of the […]

New documents reveal Scientology’s earliest battles against naysayers

[L. Ron Hubbard, charmer]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re going way back today to the very start of the Scientology movement, in the weeks and months after L. Ron Hubbard’s book ‘Dianetics’ was first published. New documents show us […]

Scientology’s plans run into ecological quagmire: Meet the Great Crested Newt!

[A great crested newt, just minding its own business]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: With this year’s IAS gala looming, Scientology’s back-door attempt to get permission to erect its giant tent for the three-day annual event at its UK headquarters, […]

Scientology posts photo of Shelly Miscavige (if you know where to look)

[In Spain, Dave lies mainly in the plain]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the things we do is keep an eye on Scientology’s latest press releases. It’s a thankless task, but sometimes amid all the rah-rah notices there’s […]

Scientology and oiliness: More renderings from the Super Power Building

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Even more bizarre features from Scientology’s ‘Flag Building’ that were leaked to us in 2012, a year before the building opened. What do these space cadets need with a ‘pain station’ or ‘infinite pit’? […]

Scientology: Secrets of the Super Power Building

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of our favorite series at the Village Voice was based on renderings of Scientology’s ‘Flag Building’ leaked to us in 2012, a year before the building opened. We managed to recover the images […]

Scientology strikes out again as another local authority says no to tent plans

[Dave’s circus, 2018]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: More bad news for Scientology as it waits to see whether it will get permission for a car park it wants to build and also its giant tent that it puts up […]

When Scientology tried to sway coverage with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner

[Wenner and Hunter S. Thompson in 1996]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology was in a panic: It was 2005, and they knew that Rolling Stone was digging into a story. What to do? They had Tom Cruise call Jann […]

Fact-checking the Scientology mentions in Priscilla Presley’s new memoir

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: It was just last October that Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous ‘From Here to the Great Unknown’ came out and we checked it for mentions of Scientology. Now, her mother Priscilla has a new memoir, […]

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