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L. Ron Hubbard on Medicine, Doctors and Cures

December 10, 2022 By Mike Rinder 43 Comments

  L. Ron Hubbard had a very jaundiced view of the medical profession and healing of disease and illness. He announced to the world that he had discovered the real causes and cures for virtually everything with Dianetics and proceeded to expand on his assertions from there all the way through the years in scientology and ultimately with the "New Era Dianetics for OT's." Never one to understate his accomplishments, Hubbard made numerous false claims about his "research" and "discoveries" which still form the "technology" of scientology used today. He proclaimed himself to have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: arthritis, cancer, cures, Dianetics, DMSMH, Jeff Jacobsen, Kirstie Alley, L. Ron Hubbard, medical doctors, Mockingbird, NOTs

The Incredible Shrinking World of Scientology

December 5, 2022 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

    Quite a number of people have asked me in recent interviews whether scientology is growing. Of course, it is not. Information is deadly poison to cults and in this age of the internet, scientology is doomed. But, scientology puts out an endless stream of propaganda to make it seem like they are expanding. They claim "massive growth" and "unprecedented demand" and various other catchphrases, statements unsupported by specifics or statistics. Naturally, scientology doesn't want to make information available that would disprove their claims of constant and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: census, IAS members, Ideal Orgs, Jefferson Hawkins, Tony Ortega

“What Did You Do To Pull It In?”

October 26, 2022 By Mike Rinder 62 Comments

  In the face of the Danny Masterson trial, I have spent quite a bit of time recently explaining this Hubbard concept and how it relates to treating victims in scientology. Every scientologist knows and uses this phrase, "What did you do to pull it in?" as a pat response to those on the receiving end of something harmful or upsetting to them. It is the go-to answer for a broad spectrum of things: from being criticized unfairly by your boss, to being run over by a car or mugged on the street. The basic concept is that you are "at cause" and create everything in your life. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: Danny Masterson, Full Responsibility, Overt/Motivator Sequence, Pull It In, victim

Reality Check: Scientologists and Law Enforcement

October 25, 2022 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

With the ongoing rape trial of Danny Masterson, a lot of people are curious about scientology's position with respect to reporting crimes to law enforcement. Scientology responded to reports they forbid this in typical fashion -- quoting the LA Times: The Church of Scientology declined to comment on the pending criminal matter, but said the religion has no policy against reporting crimes committed by Scientologists to law enforcement. “Church policy explicitly demands Scientologists abide by all laws of the land,” spokeswoman Karin Pouw said. Though most people reject scientology's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: Danny Masterson, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, Karin Pouw, L. Ron Hubbard, New Hope for Justice

The 2009/2010 FBI Scientology Investigation: New Details

June 7, 2022 By Mike Rinder 21 Comments

More documents from the 2010 FBI investigation have become available through an FOIA request made many years ago.  While there is a great deal of redacted information and many documents withheld in their entirety, there is a lot of information contained in this disclosure that I had not been previously aware of. The full documents can be found here. There were a lot of documents released by the FBI back in 2017 which Tony O covered on his blog. Those docs (many of them witness interviews) are included in this new release -- though the redactions are very different. This is common with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FBI, Special Feature Tagged With: Brad Edwards, Brittany Henderson, Danny Masterson, FBI, Grand Jury, Human trafficking, Jeffrey Epstein, Mary Carter Endrues, Relentless Pursuit, Surviving Jeffrey Epstein

L. Ron Hubbard on Psychiatry, Pain and Sex

April 13, 2022 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments

This is an expansion of an earlier post I did on this subject. Hubbard always had a lot to say about psychiatry being the root of all evil in this universe, but towards the end of his days, he became increasingly obsessed with the topic. Just as he was trying to get rid of those pesky BT's and clusters, so too he was trying to explain to the world the scourge of psychiatry. Read his fiction from the time -- Battlefield Earth and even more so, Mission Earth, and his fixation on psychiatry is remarkable. They are the source of all suppression of mankind. His unpublished writings are even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: L. Ron Hubbard, Pain and Sex, psychiatry

Scientology Hypocrisy: Slave Labor and Human Trafficking

April 6, 2022 By Mike Rinder 31 Comments

    Hypocrisy in scientology runs very deep. It is almost axiomatic that if scientology claims something virtuous about itself, the opposite is true. They are masters at the art of pointing the finger at others to avert scrutiny of themselves. Just a short list: They proclaim they are champions of free speech, while seeking by any means necessary to silence anyone who says things they don't like. They claim to be against hatred and bigotry while putting out a continuous stream of hate-filled utterances and offering a safe harbor and support for the likes of Tony … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: Disconnection, FBI, Human trafficking, L. Ron Hubbard, Mary Shuttleworth, STAND League

The Big Lie: “They Incited Murder”

November 24, 2021 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

  Yesterday, Tony Ortega reported the news out of Australia concerning the perpetrator of the tragic murder at the Advanced Organization in Sydney.   Stefani Hutchinson weighed in with her always cogent and fact driven take on things like this, I recommend reading her blog on the subject.     While there is much to be said about what happened, the tragic circumstances, the scientology refusal to acknowledge real mental illness and other things, there is a singular point I want to make. Scientology seized on this tragedy to make baseless and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, Special Feature Tagged With: A & E, Confront and Shatter, David Miscavige, Freedom Media Ethics, Karin Pouw, Paul Buccieri, Stefani Hutchinson, The Aftermath, Tony Ortega

Scientology “Arbitration”: They make up the rules as they go along

November 20, 2021 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

  The recent, very disappointing decision from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Garcia case highlights once again the problem of trying to deal with scientology in the courts: they understand too well how to game the system. The old adage that when the facts are not on your side, argue the law is page 2 of the scientology playbook. Page one is: baffle them with bullshit disguised as "religious practices." Legal decisions are based on precedent: Precedent refers to a court decision that is considered as authority for deciding subsequent cases involving identical or similar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal, Special Feature Tagged With: 11th Circuit, Luis Garcia, Robert Luck, Rocio Garcia, Rosenbaum, scientology arbitrtion, William Pryor

A Scientology Committee of Evidence is NOT Arbitration

June 16, 2021 By Mike Rinder 56 Comments

  Scientology has managed to persuade courts that people who signed Enrollment Agreements as a condition of starting a scientology service, are bound by a paragraph of the agreement where they agree to resolve disputes through a scientology "religious arbitration." Here is the language from those agreements.   This is the paragraph concerning religious arbitration:   Set aside whether an agreement to participate in services can encompass claims that have nothing to do with the service that is the subject of the agreement; there is another more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Special Feature Tagged With: Comm Ev, Committee of Evidence, International Justice Chief, Kangaroo Court, L. Ron Hubbard, religious arbitration

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