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[The claim that got this 2015 Scientology ad banned.]When we saw the news last week that the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) had banned a Scientology television commercial, we immediately assumed that we knew who had made the complaint about the ad that eventually got it taken down. Continue reading There’s a backstory to the recent news of a Scientology TV ad being banned in the UK
[Mauricio Clark, Scientology’s new get?]Time again for Rod Keller’s Scientology Social Media Review! Rod goes way back, having kept a meticulous eye on the church since 1992. He’s well known for his indispensable “ARS Week in Review,” which ran for nine years when ARS — the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology — was the most important daily source for Scientology news. More recently, Rod has made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things Scientologists post to social media. Rod is a chronicler who piece by piece builds a highly detailed assessment of what Scientology is doing around the world, and this is what he found for us this week… Continue reading Scientology snags a TV news host, and other social media finds around the world
After he signed a three-month, $8,200 contract for a billboard about Scientology with the Los Angeles office of Outfront Media, former Scientologist Phil Jones has learned that the New York head office of Outfront — formerly CBS Outdoor — canceled the contract without explanation. Continue reading Outfront Media rescinds contract for Scientology ‘disconnection’ billboard in Hollywood
In November, we told you about the death of Tabatha Lynn Fauteux, a 26-year-old New Hampshire woman who was found dead in a Los Angeles apartment, apparently of a drug overdose. She had been staying at the apartment with a boyfriend for several weeks while the two of them underwent training in the Church of Scientology’s revamping of its drug rehab program, Narconon. Before they went to L.A. for the training, the two of them had been working together at Narconon’s clinic in Harlingen, Texas and had each been sober for about a year. Continue reading Scientology officials panicked about overdose death of star Narconon pupil: Boyfriend
 Bert Deixler On Monday, Scientology attorney Bert Deixler filed the church’s final salvo at Laura DeCrescenzo before Monday’s crucial hearing in her forced-abortion lawsuit. In 2009 Laura filed her lawsuit, and one of its main arguments was that since she had left Scientology’s Sea Org in 2004, she had come to a different understanding of her life in that strict group that requires signing a billion-year contract. After she had left it in 2004, she remained a Scientologist for four more years until finally becoming disaffected and reading eye-opening information about Scientology online. Continue reading Scientology, in forced-abortion case: It’s not abuse if you don’t complain when it’s happening
Three years after it was first published in the U.S., Lawrence Wright’s monumental book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief will be published in the U.K. for the first time on March 17 by Silvertail Books. Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: Lawrence Wright’s Scientology epic ‘Going Clear’ finally getting U.K. release
In a unanimous decision, a three-justice panel of the Florida 2nd District Court of Appeals has struck down a $1 million judgment Scientology had won against attorney Ken Dandar. Continue reading APPEALS COURT STRIKES SCIENTOLOGY’S $1 MILLION JUDGMENT AGAINST KEN DANDAR
Phil Jones wasted no time after the readers of this website helped him raise more than $11,000 in just over a day to fund his project for a billboard in Hollywood. He tells us that he’s now inked a three-month contract for the sign, which will put a focus on Scientology’s practice of “disconnection” that splits up families, including Phil’s own. He and his wife Willie have been raising a ruckus in Los Angeles lately as they’ve tried to get word to their two grown children, Mike and Emily, who work for Scientology in the Los Angeles area, but who have cut off all ties with their parents since Phil and Willie left the church. Continue reading DONE DEAL: Contract signed and date set for billboard about Scientology disconnection
Two former Church of Scientology members who grew up in the church but in different eras, Aaron Smith-Levin and former church spokesman Mike Rinder, are back with more from their recent conversation which Aaron recorded as part of his series, “Growing Up in Scientology.” Continue reading What Scientology kids are really taught to believe about other religions and ‘God’
What a way to celebrate Leap Day. Early this morning, Phil and Willie Jones’ project to put an anti-disconnection billboard on Hollywood Boulevard reached its funding goal, and now Phil tells us that he’ll quickly get the papers filed to make the sign a reality. Continue reading Billboard decrying Scientology ‘disconnection’ will be going up on Hollywood Blvd
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