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Nov 30, 2009
Infinite Complacency: Paul Schofield´s Letter
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Paul David Schofield described how Scientology was complicit in the cover-up of child sexual abuse – and how he helped them hide the truth about the deaths of his own daughters. [...]
Nov 29, 2009
Scientology DVDs in schools — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Nippert Source:
New Zealand Herald A scientologist doctor, who gave evidence on the suicide of a church member she treated, is promoting a controversial educational resource in New Zealand schools. Dr Helen Smith gave evidence this year to a coroner's inquiry after the death of David Sampson in December 2008. Sampson had won $651,000 in Lotto's first division in 1991, but battled with alcohol abuse and depression. A friend of Sampson was upset at the church's policy against psychiatric help: "He was suffering from depression, but ...
Nov 20, 2009
Scientology practices 'putting people at risk' — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barney Zwartz Source:
The Age (Australia) DANGEROUS dismissal of psychiatry and mental health problems must be part of a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology, a Melbourne cult counsellor said yesterday. Cult Counselling Australia director Raphael Aron said Scientologists put vulnerable people at risk by taking them off psychiatric drugs and treatment, instead treating them with vitamins and E-meter readings. Mr Aron supported Senator Nick Xenophon's call in Federal Parliament on Tuesday for a Senate inquiry into the Scientologists. The senator tabled letters citing forced abortions, ...
Nov 8, 2009
I know the dark side of Scientology...I almost lost my friend to it — The HeraldMore: heraldscotland.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Source:
The Herald I knew Scientology was in trouble when the media moved on from the usual silly gossip about its celebrity members to much darker, disturbing issues at the heart of the movement. After a Paris court last month convicted several Scientologists and two organisations associated with the movement in France of organised fraud, and amid other investigations in France looking at a suicide and an alleged abduction, Oscar-winning film-maker Paul Haggis, a long-time member, quit Scientology. Haggis, who wrote and directed Crash, ...
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 25 Never let me down again — BFG Books
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 1 Opposite day — CNM Publishing
Oct 23, 2009
Nighline: How Scientology attracts celebrities — ABC News
Oct 15, 2009
Court of Appeal rejects millionaires’ challenge to income tax — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven M. Ellis Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) A ballot initiative imposing a tax on millionaires to fund mental health services did not violate equal protection, this district’s Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Reasoning that taxpayers earning more than $1 million annually do not comprise a “suspect class” requiring strict scrutiny analysis, Div. Two rejected a challenge to Proposition 63 by two La Canada Scientologists. Proposition 63 was passed in 2004 and expanded funding for mental health services for all Californians by imposing an additional tax of 1 percent ...
Sep 24, 2009
John Travolta tells court of autistic son's death — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jacqui Goddard Source:
The Times (UK) John Travolta told yesterday of his desperate attempts to save his dying son after he suffered a seizure at their holiday home in the Bahamas — and acknowledged publicly for the first time that the boy had suffered from autism. Accompanied by his actress wife, Kelly Preston, the Grease star appeared in a court in Nassau to recall the horrifying moment that a male nanny, Eli Wheaton, came pounding on their bedroom door to rouse them from their sleep on January ...
Sep 24, 2009
Testimony by John Travolta that son was autistic raises Scientology questions — Wikinews
Jul 31, 2009
Scientology expert describes how the church recruits and controls its members — Overnight America
Jul 25, 2009
Is John Travolta cracking up? It's not just grief - and guilt - over his dead son that are tearing the actor apart — Daily Mail (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Scott Source:
Daily Mail (UK) Dead of night, and on a deserted Florida landing strip, the silence of the oppressively hot early hours is broken by the low whirring of an electric golf cart, driving lazy circuits.
At the wheel is a bulky, lone figure, hunched forward over the controls as he tries to kill time during another long, sleepless night.
It is a sight that has become something of a regular occurrence in recent weeks, as Hollywood star John Travolta acts out his bizarre nocturnal ...
Jul 13, 2009
Un jour un destin: Tom Cruise [Unofficial English translation by Anonymous] — France 2More: Original French version
Jun 22, 2009
Scientology (Part 2 of 3): Death in slow motion — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Lisa McPherson case: events leading to the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin ,
Joe Childs Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The night after Lisa McPherson died, the leader of the Church of Scientology sent word for one of his top lieutenants to wait by a pay phone at the Holiday Inn Surfside on Clearwater Beach. When Marty Rathbun answered the ringing phone in the lobby, David Miscavige let him have it: Why aren’t you all over this mess? The police are poking around. Do something. "Yes sir," Rathbun said. McPherson, a 36-year-old parishioner in apparent good health, had spent 17 days ...
May 20, 2009
APA learns to deal with Scientology campaign against psychiatry — MedPage TodayMore: Youtube
Apr 29, 2009
Shrinks vilified an ConU / Exhibit "despicable," says psych student — The Suburban (Montreal)More: transcript
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Delmar Source:
The Suburban (Montreal) A display on the mezzanine of one of Concordia University’s downtown buildings turned heads last week for proclaiming that the profession of psychiatry is an “industry of death.”
Students who walked into the Library building on de Maisonneuve Blvd. two weeks ago were faced with a large exhibit, decorated to resemble a filthy asylum, with various displays on the historical evils of psychiatry and the quackery practiced by its disciples. What is not immediately apparent is that the display was organized ...
Apr 23, 2009
Scientology on display — Montreal Mirror
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Jones Source:
Montreal Mirror What do declining educational standards, Nazism, the Columbine shootings, 9/11 and the death of Kurt Cobain have in common? If you passed through the hall of Concordia’s McConnell library building last week, you might think they’re all caused by the pernicious influence of psychiatry.
Organized by the innocuous-sounding Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), “Psychology: Industry of Death” is a travelling exhibit that spent four days in the open hall of the university library, arousing curiosity, controversy and at least one ...
Apr 22, 2009
Letters // Scientologists didn't deserve a soapbox — Montreal GazetteMore: montrealgazette.com
Type: Press
Source:
Montreal Gazette Re: "Scientologists have a right to speak, too" (Editorial, April 19). Your editorial's plaintive title betrays a fundamental misapprehension of the issues involved. No one denies the right of Scientologists to say whatever they want, however wrong and untrue it might be. What some people are concerned about, however, is the fact that they are being given a publicly-funded, intellectual soapbox - the Atrium of Concordia University's library building - from which to make their crackpot claims. That is the issue. ...
Apr 18, 2009
Controversy at Concordia — CTV (Montreal, Canada)
Type: TV
Author(s):
Cindy Sherwin Source:
CTV (Montreal, Canada) A large and graphic exhibition sponsored by the Church of Scientology is on display at the university. Cindy Sherwin has the story.
Apr 9, 2009
Seizure killed Travolta's son — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Zosia Bielski Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Intense scrutiny has focused on John Travolta's family after the death of the actor's chronically ill 16-year-old son Jett, who died at the family's vacation home at a Grand Bahama resort on Friday.
Yesterday, an undertaker said the death certificate concluded that the cause of death was a seizure, and that the teen's body showed no sign of head trauma despite earlier police reports that he hit his head on a bathtub.
Mr. Travolta, 54, and wife Kelly Preston, 46, were ...
Feb 28, 2009
Shrinks in their sights — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kate McClymont Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) COMING to a doctor's surgery near you: a sparky little DVD, saying "psychiatrists occupy the lowest rung of the medical profession", has been dispatched to GPs across Australia.
The DVD says that psychiatrists are money-grubbing quacks who invent diseases so that they can become rich by prescribing drugs. Those evil dudes also kill 3000 people a month by prescribing psychotropic drugs, it says.
While Tom Cruise's comely visage does not feature on the DVD, it is the product of that crazy ...
Feb 21, 2009
Lawyer again takes on Church of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Brassfield Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Taking on the Church of Scientology in court is like picking a fight with the Russian army. When attacked, the church defends itself aggressively, wearing down opponents with a barrage of litigation while peering into their personal lives. Ken Dandar knows this better than anyone. In the 7-year-long Lisa McPherson case, the Tampa lawyer and the church waged one of the most grueling, fiercely contested legal battles in Tampa Bay history. The wrongful death lawsuit became intensely acrimonious, with ...
Feb 18, 2009
Police report found no Scientology role in suicide — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jonathan Abel Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Police investigated the role Scientology played in the suicide of a troubled young man two years ago, but did not conclude church members forced him off his antidepressant medication or contributed to his death. Last week, the mother of Kyle Brennan filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Scientology's Clearwater-based Flag Service Organization and three Scientologists, claiming they took away Brennan's medication. The suit names the boy's father, Thomas Brennan, as a defendant; along with Denise Gentile, who is the ...
Feb 4, 2009
Evil Psychs Behind 9/11
Feb 2, 2009
The Gerry Ryan Show: John Duignan [starts at 1h 33m] — RTÉ 2fm (Ireland)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , forums.whyweprotest.net
Jan 26, 2009
On second thought, Hoskins backs out of Scientologist exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Wagman Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) State Rep. Ted Hoskins backed out of an appearance this weekend at an anti-psychiatry exhibit linked to the Church of Scientology.
Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, was scheduled to speak at “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon.
The exhibit was organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group founded by Scientologists that shares the same fervent opposition to psychiatry.
Hoskins agreed to speak at the exhibit last week, when he saw ...
Jan 22, 2009
Rep. Hoskins to speak at Scientology anti-psychiatry exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Wagman Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Rep. Ted Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, will speak at an anti-psychiatry exhibit sponsored by a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology.
Hoskins will introduce “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon.
The touring exhibit, which made an appearance earlier this week in the Capitol rotunda in Jefferson City, has been put together by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which was founded by Scientologists to further the group’s views on psychiatry.
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Jan 8, 2009
Jett Travolta's death feeds rumors of autism — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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