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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: 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?] Continue reading Leaked document: How Scientology handled a journalist’s uncomfortable questions
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?] Continue reading AUDIO: Scientology’s David Miscavige presents plans for ‘L. Ron Hubbard Hall’
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
[Kyle Clark of 9News]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: With the Dianetics 75th anniversary coming Friday, Scientology has been looking for suckers to issue proclamations about the 1950 book. The church did manage to ensnare a couple of gullible small towns in its scheme. But one Denver suburb came to its senses just in time! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology snubbed by Denver suburb after TV news asked about ‘proclamation’
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Over the years when we’ve posted Scientology’s photos of Sea Org members, it helps families get some information about missing loved ones. And now we have another set of photos for readers to pore over and identify pawns in Dave’s indentured navy. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Missing family in Scientology? Check out these new photos for your loved ones
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The 80s Dianetics TV ad by Jeff Hawkins made L. Ron Hubbard’s turgid 1950 volume a bestseller again. Geoff Levin came up with the music that helped make the ad a hit. Now Geoff has sampled his iconic track for a new song to ‘celebrate’ the book’s 75th birthday. Fun! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Dianetics 75 countdown: New Scientology song from the original volcano ad genius!
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Believe it or not, there are indie Scientology adherents convinced that L. Ron Hubbard has returned and is sitting in a Tennessee jail — and they send him money every month. LRH 2.0 has now hit on his most audacious scheme yet, to form his own personal navy, just as original Ron did! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading L. Ron Hubbard 2.0 hits on best scheme yet: His own Scientology Sea Org!
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