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Nov 11, 1991
Scientology's children: Children, adults write to the Times — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: whyaretheydead.info , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The True School and the Jefferson Academy, two Clearwater schools that use educational methods devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, declined to allow the St. Petersburg Times to interview students, graduates, teachers, administrators or parents. But the True School did provide what it said were testimonials from some of the school's students and staff members. In addition, Church of Scientology spokesman Richard Haworth arranged for Scientologists to write letters and send them to the Times . Here are excerpts from the ...
Nov 10, 1991
Scientology's children: What are church's beliefs? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) L. Ron Hubbard was a writer who conjured up tales of time travel and rocket ships to Mars. But science fiction was not all that sprang from Hubbard's pen. He also wrote the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health . In it, Hubbard described a new kind of counseling, which he said could help people increase their IQs, cure themselves of arthritis, allergies, asthma and migraine headaches, and reduce their chances of having a car wreck. The book was published ...
Sep 4, 1991
Scientology takes on IRS — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Wall Street Journal The Church of Scientology, which is already bashing Time magazine in full-page salvos, has taken its long-running squabble with the Internal Revenue Service public, running full-page ads in USA Today to enlist anti-IRS allies. An ad that ran yesterday shows a screaming young girl and carries the headline, "Don't you kill my Daddy!" Ad copy discusses a situation in which "a band of armed IRS agents" allegedly tried to choke an Idaho man, as well as other alleged IRS abuses. Yesterday's ...
Aug 2, 1991
Group linked to Scientologists loses Prozac bid — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON —The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday rejected a request by a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology that it ban the anti-depressant drug Prozac on grounds that it makes people suicidal and violent. The FDA released a letter to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights saying that it had found no evidence for these claims or for the commission's additional claims that Prozac is addictive and causes movement disorders. The agency said it had reviewed the evidence provided ...
Aug 2, 1991
Scientologists fail to persuade FDA on Prozac — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas M. Burton Source:
Wall Street Journal INDIANAPOLIS —The Food and Drug Administration weighed in heavily on the side of Ell Lilly & Co. in rejecting claims that the popular anti-depressant drug Prozac is connected to murder, suicide or other maladies. The FDA action follows a yearlong campaign against Prozac by the Church of Scientology that had sought to persuade the federal agency, through a formal petition, to ban U.S. sales of the Lilly drug. But the FDA found that a Scientology-founded group called the Citizens Commission for ...
Jun 20, 1991
Advertising // Scientology dispute draws in WPP chief — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joanne Lipman Source:
Wall Street Journal A bizarre run-in between Time magazine and the Church of Scientology has ensnared an unlikely victim: WPP Group's Martin Sorrell. Ever since Time ran a May 6 cover story depicting the Scientology group as a "cult of greed," the Scientologists have been striking back, criticizing the article as a "sensationalized attack" full of "falsehoods." In the past week, the Scientologists have broadened their attack. This time, in one of the stranger plot twists Madison Avenue has seen, their target is Mr. ...
Jun 1, 1991
Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression — Psychiatric TimesMore: link , lermanet.com
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Psychiatric Times A personal aide to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for eight of her nearly 20 years with the group says that
fluoxetine (Prozac) and therapy have finally stopped the depression and suicidal ideation she had suffered since 1976. "I have to speak out."
Hana (Eltringham) Whitfield told
The Psychiatric Times . "The Scientologists choose the most prominent psychiatrists and the most successful drugs to attack. That's why they attacked
Ritalin , and that's why they are now attacking Prozac." Although ...
May 29, 1991
Scientology group starts media attack on Time magazine // Full-Page ads in USA Today are intended to refute unflattering cover story — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Patrick M. Reilly Source:
Wall Street Journal The Church of Scientology has launched an unusually large-scale media attack against Time magazine in retribution for an unflattering cover story on the worldwide organization earlier this month. The church, founded by the late L. Ron Hubbard, took out a four-color, full-page ad yesterday in Gannett Co.'s USA Today with the headline "What magazine gets it wrong in 1991. . .the same one that was wrong in 1936. Time magazine." The ad, using quotes from W.A. Swanberg's "Luce and His Empire," ...
Apr 19, 1991
Medical flap // Anti-depression drug of Eli Lilly loses sales after attack by sect — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas M. Burton Source:
Wall Street Journal Scientologists Claim Prozac Induces Murder or Suicide, Though Evidence Is Scant Campaign Dismays Doctors INDIANAPOLIS—L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of the Church of Scientology, long harbored a profound and obsessive hatred for psychiatrists, who, he declared, were "chosen as a vehicle to undermine and destroy the West!" Five years after Mr. Hubbard's death, Scientologists are still waging war on psychiatry. The quasi-religious/ business/ paramilitary organization's latest target is Prozac, the nation's top-selling medicine for severe depression. The group is calling ...
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