TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We have another fascinating document that was dug up by a team of researchers which has been helping us out. This time, we get a peek inside what it’s like when Scientology deals with uncomfortable questions from a reporter, and how to spin the news as much as possible. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Is any holiday more anathema to Scientology than Mother’s Day? In L. Ron Hubbard’s scheme the family unit is a fiction, a temporary assembly of ‘thetans,’ and the church enforces discipline by cruelly ripping families apart. Again we’re honoring the moms who defy this madness. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading On Mother’s Day 2025, the moms who defy Scientology’s cruel ‘disconnection’ policy

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Thanks to Mark Bunker, we now have some audio from Scientology’s L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Celebration held in March. And in particular, the moment when church leader David Miscavige reveals plans for the final piece to turn a Florida city into Scientology’s Vatican. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Dianetics, which turns 75 today, is a vile book. In it, L. Ron Hubbard imagines that most of our problems are the result of unfaithful women and uncaring mothers having rough sex. Scientology doesn’t want you to know that until you buy a copy. And here’s the worst thing in it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Dianetics at 75: Scientology’s bible, endorsing child molestation since 1950

 
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As we count down to the 75th anniversary of Dianetics tomorrow, we’ve heard from readers about various reviews written soon after the 1950 appearance of L. Ron Hubbard’s magnum opus, the book that led to Scientology. But for us there is one review that towers above the rest. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?]

Continue reading Dianetics 75: What the Nobel physicist got out of Scientology’s bible