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[Kirstie Alley and Kelly Preston attacking the psychs]Chris Owen concludes his three-part series on Scientology’s war on psychiatry today. Make sure you don’t miss part one and part two. Scientology continues to battle psychiatry to this day, but its ‘war’ has shifted focus and tactics since David Miscavige took over as its leader in the 1980s. In 1983, Miscavige abolished the discredited Guardian’s Office and replaced it with the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), which fulfils many of the same functions. The Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights, Scientology’s anti-psychiatry front group that formerly sat under the Guardian’s Office, was transferred to the control of OSA’s ‘social reform’ section. Continue reading ‘Global psychiatric obliteration’: Scientology’s ongoing war on psychiatry
Historian Chris Owen’s deep dive into Scientology’s war on the mental health profession continues with part two today. Please see his dynamite part one from yesterday.
In parallel with its overt anti-psychiatry campaign detailed in part one of our series, Scientology also conducted a covert campaign against medical doctors. As far back as the early 1950s, Hubbard had been deeply paranoid about supposed infiltration by the American Medical Association (AMA), to the point that one of his associates recalled him seeing “a spy from the American Medical Association in every student applicant, in every preclear in for processing, in every non-student customer in the FranTom Luncheonette downstairs.” Continue reading Defeating the ‘Satan worshippers’: Scientology’s secret war on doctors
We’re happy to say that today begins another epic dive into Scientology by historian Chris Owen. Today, part one of his three-part look at Scientology and its war on the mental health industry.
Few things in Scientology have been more of a constant than its campaign against psychiatry and mental health organisations. L. Ron Hubbard and his successors have waged a ceaseless war against mainstream mental health for the past seventy years, claiming to seek nothing less than the total annihilation of psychiatry. With two top Australian mental health advocates calling for Scientology to lose its tax exemption over its war against psychiatry, are Scientology’s attacks simply trash-talking – or something more sinister? Continue reading First, do harm: Scientology’s secret war on mental health Advertisement
In 2004, as part of the plan to turn Tom Cruise into the most gung-ho Scientologist on the planet, church leader David Miscavige threw a special surprise birthday party for the Top Gun actor on the church’s private cruise ship, the Freewinds. Continue reading Can someone let Tom Cruise know that his Scientology bandleader has died?
We just learned that Ron Miscavige has died. His co-author Dan Koon wrote this touching memorial for us, which we are publishing now. Continue reading Ron Miscavige, Scientology whistleblower and father of the church leader, 1936-2021
[The Fort Harrison Hotel]Our former OT 8 Scientologist has sent us another trove of pristine materials documenting their trek up the Bridge to Total Freedom. Previously, we’ve shown you some things from the mid 1980s that were in amazing shape. Now, we’ve been given some things from a more contemporary timeframe. Continue reading Leaked price list: What it costs to stay at Scientology’s ‘spiritual mecca’ in Florida
[Eddie Deezen and Marissa Ribisi]Is Eddie Deezen still a Scientologist? We have to assume he is, because he’s been involved for a very long time (since John Travolta got him interested in Dianetics while they were filming Grease in 1977), and he was most recently mentioned in a Scientology magazine as completing a level, OT Preps, in 2015. Continue reading More minor Scientology celebrities making news, and not in a good way
In May, Valerie Haney’s legal team (specifically constitutional scholar Marci Hamilton) filed a petition with the US Supreme Court, asking it to step in and prevent the Church of Scientology from forcing Valerie into its “religious arbitration.” Scientology’s response was due yesterday, and attorneys Robert Mangels (RTC) and William Forman (CSI) got their filing submitted in time. We have it for you below. Continue reading Scientology to US Supreme Court: Valerie Haney predicament is not a First Amendment case
[The Apollo]They are two of Scientology’s more notorious deaths, and both of which have been the source of speculation and controversy over the years. And both of them happen to fall on the same date. Continue reading Scientology 50 & 21 years ago today: The strange deaths of Susan Meister & Stacy Moxon
In 2012, Ron Miscavige made a clever and daring escape with his wife Becky Bigelow from Scientology’s secretive “Int Base,” where the two of them had been living as “Sea Org” workers. Continue reading His son may rule moneyed Scientology, but Ron Miscavige needs help to pay for his own funeral
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