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Twenty years ago today, on Wednesday, November 15, 1995, Lisa McPherson and her friend Brenda Hubert drove from Clearwater, Florida to Orlando and checked into a hotel. Lisa had not slept much the night before, so she went up to her room for a nap while other employees of AMC Publishing were still arriving. Continue reading Tom DeVocht: Watching David Miscavige watch Lisa McPherson and her faulty ‘needle’
Frequent contributor Jeffrey Augustine is back with another look at Scientology and money. Recently, the Netherlands upheld a legal decision to deny Scientology tax exempt status, and one of the reasons given was that it made no sense to the Dutch that a “church” would be charging such exorbitant rates. Can you imagine a court in the US similarly making such an obvious conclusion? Anyway, that gave us the excuse to remind people just what Scientology charges for its services. Take it away, Jeff… Continue reading Jeffrey Augustine: Just a friendly reminder — Scientology prices are outrageous
[Miscavige, in 1998; photo by Robin Donina Serne]
Marc Headley remembers where he was and what he was doing because David Miscavige, the leader of Scientology, was spitting obscenities about, of all things, the bad teeth belonging to Marc’s stepfather. Continue reading Why it was Scientology leader David Miscavige who declared Lisa McPherson ‘Clear’
Right around this day twenty years ago, Dallas resident Fannie McPherson, who was then 70 years old, had her last telephone conversation with her 36-year-old daughter Lisa. Continue reading Countdown to Room 174: Remembering, in real time, Scientology’s grimmest scandal
 In August, we told you about Jonathan Little (pictured), an Indiana attorney who is handling several lawsuits against Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon.
He turned heads with his outspokenness. Referring to Scientology’s delaying legal strategy, he said, “If Narconon and Scientology want to have a decade-long war, I have nothing else to do and I’m not going away.” Continue reading Under oath, Narconon official lets slip that drug rehab organized just like Scientology
[The woman Scientology won’t name]You have to give Scientology leader David Miscavige one thing: Once he makes a decision, it can get carried out very quickly. And after this weekend’s opening of a large new Narconon center in Clearwater, Florida, it’s plain that a major project Miscavige set into motion a couple of years ago is now pretty much complete. Narconon, as we know it, is over. Continue reading Narconon is dead, long live Narconon! How Scientology solved its drug rehab addiction
We have something of a cryptic story this morning. Some months ago, we were asked a question by a researcher and we didn’t have access to the answer at the time. Now we’ve stumbled upon it, and we thought rather than just email that person, we’d post the answer publicly for the heck of it. Continue reading Scientology on the high seas: When L. Ron Hubbard was still making tech ‘breakthroughs’
Former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder has a great new post at his blog this morning, and in it he predicts what Scientology leader David Miscavige may do in response to “Hurricane Leah,” the media storm that is still raging after Leah Remini’s book Troublemaker was published on Tuesday. Continue reading Up next for Scientology: Sending out Tom Cruise to put on a grand performance?
We’re still jonesing for the next issue of Scientology’s propaganda magazine, Freedom, which completely missed putting out an issue in October. The magazine had been chugging along with monthly issues after it was retooled and relaunched in July 2014 with a new, very earnest focus on issues of the day rather than goofy attacks on Scientology’s critics. Continue reading Desperate to hurt Going Clear‘s Oscar chances, Scientology goes down a dangerous path
After more than a year since an oral hearing was held in the case, the Texas Third Court of Appeals has finally ruled in Monique Rathbun’s favor, denying the Church of Scientology’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling. Continue reading SCIENTOLOGY DENIED: APPEAL SHOT DOWN AFTER YEARLONG WAIT
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