How many Scientologists live in your town? Surprisingly, Scientology has an answer

Scientology is secretive about so many things. And of course, when it does come forward with information, it has a decades-long record of prevarication. You can take none of their pronouncements at face value. Especially when they’re claiming that they have “millions” of members around the world.

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Valerie Haney’s Supreme Court petition gets a date for discussion, but don’t get your hopes up

Yesterday, we noticed that there was a new notation at the US Supreme Court in regards to Valerie Haney’s petition: “DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.”

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Another hype video! Scientology still begging members to go to the cruise ship’s ‘OT Bubble’

For the past sixteen months Scientology’s private cruise ship the Freewinds has been stuck in port in Aruba, and there’s no sign that it’s hitting the high seas again any time soon.

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Scientology’s response in Danny Masterson case appeal: ‘I changed my mind’ is not a defense

[Chrissie Bixler and Scientology’s attorneys, Forman and Hinks]

Just days after shocking testimony from three women who accuse Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson of raping them, the California Supreme Court made a stunning decision in favor of those same three women, who are also suing Masterson and the Church of Scientology in a civil lawsuit.

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How Scientology wrecks the lives of people who never even go near it

[Three generations, taken at the pergola at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre]

Some people don’t have to read a single word about Scientology in the media to know that they will never, ever, be part of that group. They haven’t read anything negative about Scientology, nor have they read anything positive about Scientology. They have never been a Scientologist, nor have they ever taken a course or an auditing session. But they have lived it. For some of you, this may be a friend or two that you knew before you got involved in Scientology. For me, it was family members.

Let me tell you a story.

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Scientology’s full report on its ‘All-Ideal USA’ blowout! It’s a fundraising juggernaut!

For several weeks we’ve been posting Scientology’s advertising for its big June 27 “All-Ideal USA” fundraising event, the closest the organization gets to a big international event these days as the pandemic hangs on.

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Tabs keep telling us Tom Cruise is ditching Scientology, and always with zero evidence

How many times have the tabloids written this story, that Tom Cruise is maybe, perhaps, leaving Scientology, basing that claim on nameless “insiders” whose quotes always turn out to be built on pure vapor?

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My family followed Scientology from the start, and here’s how I managed to escape

[L. Ron Hubbard and his flagship]

Recently we heard from Pamela Williams, who told us she was working on a book about her life, titled “Clearly, Lies Are True.” She says that a part of her story involved Scientology, and she sent us the prologue. We told her we thought she had put together an interesting snapshot of the organization in its early history. She graciously agreed to allow us to share her chapter with our readers.

I have often and seriously wondered, what came first? Insanity or Scientology?

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John P. Coale, OT 6 Scientologist, among attorneys suing Big Tech for Trump

[Greta and John]

Back in 2015, we had a lot of fun writing about attorney John P. Coale and his wife, former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, who were not only both longtime Scientologists but who had both also completed Scientology’s bizarre auditing level “OT 4,” which helps a person put the invisible alien entities sticking to them through drug rehab.

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News from Texas reminds us of a legendary fight against Scientology’s goon squad

[Back in the day]

One of the reasons that Marty Rathbun’s bizarre about-face in 2016 was so startling and disappointing was that until that time, interviewing him was one of the absolute highlights of the work we had done here and at the Village Voice.

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