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Sep 26, 2007
Dental Hygiene — Chicagoist
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Margaret Lyons Source:
Chicagoist The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Dr. James Orrington, DDS, alleging religious and sexual harassment. The suit, filed on behalf of ten employees — 9 women and 1 man? 10 women? — claims the South Side dentist required employees to recite passages from Scientology literature before he'd give them their checks. Three employees were fired after they lodged a complaint with the EEOC in 2005, and another two were fired after they complained about the harassment. According ...
Sep 21, 2007
Southwest Side dentist accused of sexual, religious harassment — Daily SouthtownMore: icsahome.com
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Author(s):
Mike Nolan Source:
Daily Southtown Feds: Workers propositioned, forced to learn about Scientology
A Southwest Side dentist sexually harassed female workers and forced them to recite Scientology formulas in order to get their paychecks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.
The EEOC sued Dr. James L. Orrington on behalf of 10 former female employees, including three who were fired by the doctor shortly after they lodged complaints with the commission, said Ann Henry, an EEOC lawyer. The dentist fired two others after they complained ...
Sep 12, 2007
City Dentist Gets Fine, Probation — Daily News Record
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David Reynolds Source:
Daily News Record RICHMOND — The Virginia Board of Dentistry ruled Friday that a Harrisonburg dentist broke state regulations by allowing unlicensed assistants to sedate patients.
The board put Dr. Kathryn Biery on indefinite probation, for at least two years, ordered her to take continuing education classes and fined her $24,000, according to Leigh Kiczales, of the Virginia Department of Health Professions Administrative Proceedings Division.
The decision followed Biery’s admission on Thursday that she told unlicensed assistants to sedate children, sometimes calling the order ...
Aug 17, 2007
A bridge too far — Haaretz
Type: Press
Author(s):
Aviva Lori Source:
Haaretz Hollywood, Tel Aviv is right behind you: Artists, businesspeople and middle-class seekers are filling the classrooms of local Scientology centers, hoping to rid themselves of excess spiritual baggage. Opera singer Gaby Sade used to have a very short fuse. If someone cut him off, he was capable of getting out of the car and giving the offending driver more than a piece of his mind. If if did not come to blows, he would at least tell him, in choice language, ...
Aug 14, 2007
Brainwash summer camp — Ynet
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Bat-Hen Epstein Elias Source:
Ynet They run summer camps for children and teach them all about love, modesty, and safe sex. They even hand out awards. Yet, it turns out that behind the volunteers of the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East stands the disputed Scientology sect. Association members insist they are not missionaries. 'Our aim is to teach values,' they say. The surprised parents are not convinced. 'How come they run such activities without even asking us?' "Don’t be promiscuous. Sex is ...
Aug 6, 2007
Scientology Underground — Gothamist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jen Carlson Source:
Gothamist The blog Boy Culture ran into (an all too common these days) "Travolting display" in the subway system over the weekend. Scientologists! The religion cult "legendarily opportunistic Church Of Scientology" is back underground giving out free stress tests.
Though police kicked them out in 2005 for violating New York City Transit rules about vending in the subways, it seems they've still had a presence down there and, from this photo (taken in late 2006), they're still selling Dianetics (translated in 50 ...
Aug 3, 2007
Scientologists Descend on Minneapolis Collapse Site — ABC News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marcus Baram Source:
ABC News They're ubiquitous at almost every disaster zone, assisting the wounded and consoling grieving families, from Ground Zero to Indonesia to New Orleans and now Minneapolis.
The Church of Scientology and its globetrotting team of volunteer ministers have been active over the last several years, arousing the ire of critics who read unholy motives into the group's charitable works.
Soon after Wednesday's bridge collapse, at least 20 Scientology volunteers in Minneapolis and surrounding areas headed to the disaster zone, according to a ...
Jul 9, 2007
Religion's rise in the stars — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carla Danaher Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) VICTORIA'S Scientology population has almost doubled in a decade, figures reveal. There are 629 Scientologists in Victoria, compared with 324 in 1996. Census data prepared for the Herald Sun shows that Melbourne's Yarra Ranges and Whitehorse areas are the state's Scientology capitals. Australia-wide, there were 2507 Scientologists in 2006, up from 1489 a decade ago. Experts say the religion's popularity is in line with the growth of other alternative religions and has been boosted significantly by Scientology's celebrity links. High-profile Scientologists ...
Jun 19, 2007
Lawsuit: Firm's training was front for Scientology — Daily Southtown
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Daily Southtown A former employee of a Southland telecommunications company claims the company's required training included courses "designed to indoctrinate employees" in Scientology, and when she objected to the religious aspects of the training she was fired. Margaret Warfield, of Montgomery, filed her religious discrimination lawsuit in federal court Monday against BTI Communications Group. According to the company's Web site, BTI Communications Group is a business telephone and communications technology company headquartered in Lemont, with branch offices in Santa Fe Springs and Sacramento, ...
Jun 14, 2007
Proselytizing on the Common - The Church of Scientology comes to town — Worcester MagazineMore: web.archive.org
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Author(s):
Chet Williamson Source:
Worcester Magazine For the past week, they set up big yellow tents with three snow-cone points and little flags on top on the Common right behind City Hall. From a distance you'd have thought that the circus had come to town. It didn't. It was the Church of Scientology's International Volunteer Minister Pioneer Cavalcade, a kind of roving revival tent show to spread the word of church founder L. Ron Hubbard. Emblazed across the front of the tents were the words: "Do Something ...
May 27, 2007
Scientology to target students — Mail on Sunday (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Caldwell Source:
Mail on Sunday (UK) The controversial Church of Scientology is planning to target students at Scottish universities and colleges in a new recruitment drive. Leaders of the church, which is largely regarded as a cult and believes humans descended from aliens, have revealed they intend to send workers into campuses to seek out impressionable youngsters. Ironically, they believe recent bad publicity after the movement featured on the BBC's Panorama programme has helped attract new converts. Following the programme screening two weeks ago, which featured presenter ...
May 23, 2007
Scientology sect 'using British art as a front' — Evening Standard (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Mendick Source:
Evening Standard (UK) The Church of Scientology has been accused of using British artists as a front for recruiting members.
The Stuckist movement, which rails against conceptual art, is in turmoil over claims that sales of its artists' paintings are effectively funding Scientology, a religious sect accused of brainwashing its followers.
The row has led to disquiet among artists as far afield as Germany.
Charles Thomson, who founded the Stuckist movement in Britain, admitted to the Evening Standard he was wrong to give the ...
Apr 26, 2007
Scientologists visiting Va. Tech to help — Roanoke Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Pamela J. Podger Source:
Roanoke Times Scientologists address man as a spiritual being and say they help people to improve their lives. BLACKSBURG – Brian Grogan, 26, was chomping on a hot dog before heading to work Wednesday when he noticed people in canary yellow T-shirts handing out religious pamphlets. A moment later, he realized they were Scientologists. "They're leeches," Grogan said. "They show up wherever something bad happens and use that to spread their propaganda." Scientologists say they're no different from the Southern Baptists, Catholics or ...
Apr 18, 2007
The Scientology vultures have landed at Virginia Tech! — Hollywood, InterruptedMore: hollywoodinterrupted.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Ebner Source:
Hollywood, Interrupted The criminal cult literally has VT in their crosshairs. As quoted in today's
Daily News Rush & Molloy column , Scientology's anti-psychiatry front group spokeswoman says, "We prohibit our people from proselytizing." Hollywood, Interrupted calls
BULLSHIT , and can now release an internal Scientology memo proving that proselytizing at the shooting tragedy site is exactly what they are doing. As first posted on the excellent anti-Scientology clearing house site
Xenu.net , here is an excerpt from the cult's current recruitment and publicity ...
Jan 7, 2007
Revealed: how Scientologists infiltrated Britain's schools / Insight: Drugs charity is front for ‘dangerous’ organisation — The Sunday Times (UK)
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