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9/11 • clark carr • clear body, clear mind (book) • cost • detox • downtown medical • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • front groups • hiram monserrate • james "jim" woodworth • john travolta • lawsuit • legal • mark shurtleff • medical claims • narconon (aka scientology drug rehab) • new york post • new york rescue workers detoxification program • public funding • purification rundown ("purif") • real estate • recruitment • the way to happiness (twth) • tom cruise • utah
Reference materials Deceitful study used in promoting Scientology's detoxification programDetoxAmerican Detoxification FoundationNew York Rescue Workers Detoxification ProgramOrange County Detox, Inc.
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Apr 20, 2007
It's Hollywood in Chelsea at WTC 'detox' bash — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Source: NY Daily News (New York)
[Picture]Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes arrive at the Altman Building for his Detox Center Benefit. [Picture]Michael Pena and his girlfriend, Breen Schaefer, were among the attendees at the Detox Center Benefit. Superstar actor and Scientology pusher Tom Cruise headlined a Chelsea soiree with all the excitement of a movie premiere last night to raise money for his controversial effort to "detox" Ground Zero workers. "It is an injustice that after six years people who were down there are still ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 20, 2007
Monserrate Defends Detox Program — New York Observer
Type: Press
Source: New York Observer
Yesterday, I caught up with Councilman Hiram Monserrate, who has come under fire for supporting a Sept. 11 first-responder detoxification program associated with the Church of Scientology. Scientology's most famous booster, Tom Cruise, held a fund-raiser last night for the program. Monserrate, a former cop, told me he spoke with Sept. 11 rescue workers who have benefited from the program, and said that critics are motivated by their own agendas. "The bottom line is the program provided a better quality of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 20, 2007
The Angry Scientologist Retort — New York Press
Type: Press
Author(s): John DeSio
Source: New York Press
As could be expected, Scientologists are none too happy with Mayor Mike Bloomberg and City Councilman Peter Vallone for questioning the scientific validity of their "sweat and vitamins" detox project for 9/11 rescue workers. And at least one California-based follower of the ways of L. Ron hubbard is speaking out, sending an open letter to a variety of elected officials, newspapers and others praising the scientific validity of the New York Rescue Workers Detox Project. The full letter is after the ...
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Apr 20, 2007
Tom Cruise holds fundraiser for Scientology 9/11 detox project — ABC News
Type: Press
Source: ABC News
(New York - WABC, April 20, 2007) (WABC) – Tom Cruise appeared at a private dinner fundraiser on Thursday night for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002. The Scientology-based program offers free treatment to emergency workers who suffer breathing difficulties and other health problems stemming from exposure to toxins at ground zero after 9/11 terror attacks. "Nearly six years later, many are still paying a price for their heroic service at the World Trade ...
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Apr 19, 2007
Crui$ing for cash — New York Post
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Type: Press
Source: New York Post
April 19, 2007 — Scientology nut Tom Cruise is in New York to solicit more cash for his controversial venture to 'detox' the heroes of September 11. As reported by the Post on April 6, Cruise, 44, will appear at a private gala on Manhattan's West 18th Street tonight to raise funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002. His wife, Katie Holmes, is also expected to be at the dinner, starting at 6 ...
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Apr 19, 2007
Cruise to detox NY — PerthNow
Type: Press
Source: PerthNow
SCIENTOLOGY fanatic Tom Cruise is in New York to solicit more cash for his controversial venture to 'detox' the heroes of September 11. Cruise, 44, will appear at a private gala on Manhattan's West 18th Street tonight to raise funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002. His wife, Katie Holmes, is also expected to be at the dinner. Guests are paying as much as US$100,000 for a table for eight. "Nearly six years ...
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Apr 19, 2007
FDNY hierarchy furious with Tom Cruise over Scientology detox for 9/11 workers — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s): Roger Friedman
Source: FOX News
Tom Cruise comes to New York on Thursday night, hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Scientology. He’s doing it under the guise of a detox program for members of the New York Fire Department who participated in the 9/11 clean-up. There’s only problem: No one from the hierarchy of the FDNY endorses this program. The people I’ve talked to are furious with Cruise, and want the rank and file of firemen in New York to stay away from ...
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Apr 19, 2007
Mike thumps Tom // Blasts city honor for Scientology's Sept. 11 'detox' — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s): David Seifman
Source: New York Post
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted official proclamations drafted by a city councilman honoring Tom Cruise and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for their roles in promoting a detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers. "I don't think it's appropriate to do that," said the mayor, reacting to a report in yesterday's Post. "I think that reputable scientists do not think Scientology has any basis in science. It may be a cult, it may be a religion, it may be beliefs. It's other things, ...
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Apr 18, 2007
City proclamation sparks L. Ron Hubbub — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s): David Seifman
Source: New York Post
In a move that has outraged some officials, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has been honored by the City Council ahead of tomorrow night's Manhattan fund-raiser for a controversial 9/11 detox program, The Post has learned. Host Tom Cruise, the Scientology follower who co-founded the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, also will be honored with a proclamation at the fund-raiser. The project runs a downtown Manhattan clinic that has served more than 780 rescue workers since 2002. Cruise is headlining ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 10, 2007
9/11 detox program finds home in Orem — Daily Herald
More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s): Brooke Barker
Source: Daily Herald
Help is on the way for Utah police officers exposed to methamphetamine labs. "When Mark Shurtleff announced he was going to test out the New York 9/11 Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, to help the meth cops, Dr. (Jerry) Ross and I met with him," said Mike Phillips, a founder of Biocleansing Centers of America in Orem. "He looked at our program and said he wanted us to stay in business long enough to help those cops." The center, at 555 S. ...
Apr 7, 2007
'Cruise control' Pol: It helped me // Hails weird detox — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s): David Seifman
Source: New York Post
A legislator hosting a gala fund-raising dinner for a controversial detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers co-founded by Tom Cruise revealed yesterday he's undergone the procedure himself. "I will tell you I felt 100 times better after the program than I've felt in the last 15 years," said City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens). The Post reported yesterday that Monserrate is one of the hosts of an April 19 fund-raiser for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, where Cruise is appearing, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 7, 2007
Help on way to Utah // Meth-exposure 'cure' works, says Pleasant View's police chief — Ogden Examiner Standard (Utah)
More: anti-scientologie.ch
Type: Press
Author(s): Tim Gurrister
Source: Ogden Examiner Standard (Utah)
Relief may be on the way for police officers ailing because of exposure to methamphetamine labs. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's initiative on behalf of scores of sick former narcotics officers will soon open an in-state treatment center offering the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Program. "Within 30 days, we hope to start sending cops through," Shurtleff said. A closed drug-detox facility in Orem will house the program, and a nonprofit corporation is being formed to run the center, he said. ...
Apr 6, 2007
Tom Cruise And His 9/11 Health Fundraiser — Gothamist
Type: Press
Author(s): Jen Chung
Source: Gothamist
Have you ever wanted to rub shoulders with Tom Cruise and learn about Scientology's detox treatment for 9/11 workers? Then you'll be excited to learn that the superstar will be in town for an April 19 fund-raiser. The Post reports that while the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project hasn't been approved by the NYPD or FDNY, some swear by it. However, even those involved with the fund-raiser are conflicted. The Post spoke to Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins, who ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 6, 2007
Tom Cruise: Committing Career Suicide? — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s): Roger Friedman
Source: FOX News
Great scoop in The New York Post today: Tom Cruise is hosting a Scientology benefit on April 19 in New York for the group’s controversial detox program for 9/11 survivors. But here’s a flash. I wrote this story on December 22, 2006: The New York Fire Department does not support the program, and there is much hostile feeling toward Cruise. The latest public endorsement of Scientology and its programs — decried by experts as pure "hooey" — may be the last ...
Apr 6, 2007
TOM'S QUACKPOT FE$T TO HIT CITY — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s): David Seifman
Source: New York Post
Scientology superstar Tom Cruise is coming here to promote his controversial "detox" project to 9/11 workers, and will host a mega-fund-raising gala for it. Tickets for the April 19 fund-raiser, which will star Cruise and benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, run as high as $100,000 for a table for eight. The downtown Manhattan clinic offers free Scientology-inspired treatments to firefighters, cops and other rescue workers exposed to high levels of toxins at Ground Zero. The program - which ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 28, 2007
Taking Chances — Santa Fe Reporter
Type: Press
Author(s): David Alire Garcia
Source: Santa Fe Reporter
***image2*** A new drug treatment center uses saunas, vitamins and, some say, Scientology to rehab inmates. Now they have state money to do it. Julio, a 30-year-old Clovis native with big brown eyes and close-cropped hair, used to be a paint sniffer. These days he sees himself differently. "You don't enter rehab because you're healthy and stable," he says. "And the last six months haven't been easy." Julio has spent the last six months at the Second Chance Center, a new ...
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Feb 22, 2007
Scientology does detox — Sacramento News & Review
Type: Press
Author(s): Luke Gianni
Source: Sacramento News & Review
David E. Root, M.D, has traveled the world on a mission to rid its inhabitants of fat-soluble toxins. From Chernobyl to Ground Zero in New York City, Root has promoted a detoxification program that he claims has helped thousands suffering ailments like radiation poisoning and asbestos exposure. Many medical professionals have criticized the program he uses as ineffective and scientifically unsound, even dangerous. Critics point out that the program’s inventor, the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 22, 2006
Tom Cruise Can't Put Out These Fires — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s): Roger Friedman
Source: FOX News
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Nov 22, 2006
Gala dinners, jive bands and Tom Cruise: how the Scientologists woo City police — The Guardian (UK)
Nov 9, 2006
Get smart! The Narconon drug detox program makes you mentally sharper and brighter, says a nutritionist — Canada Newswire
Type: Press release
Source: Canada Newswire
A Canadian Nutritionist and Graduate of the Program Talks About How the Detox Program Cleansed His Body - and Helped Boost His 'Thought Processes' TORONTO, Nov. 9 /CNW/ – Doctors, scientists and other professionals around the world have spoken and written about Narconon's Drug Detoxification Program in ridding the body of harmful chemicals and other pollutants. And thousands of people worldwide have experienced the substantial benefits the program has to offer, says the team at Narcodex. (x)(PHOTO: Send2Press.com/mediadesk/1106-S2P-Nar- Wardle_72dpi.jpg) (x)(Photo Caption: ...
May 23, 2006
Experts challenge claims of Scientology's sweat-it-out treatment for addicts — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Rusnell
Source: Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - A drug and alcohol treatment program backed by the controversial Church of Scientology is promising addicted Albertans an extraordinary 70-per-cent success rate. The Narconon program is marketed as "100-per-cent natural," and prescribes intensive saunas, exercise and high doses of vitamins to cleanse the body of "radiation, drugs and toxins." Advertisements for the Narconon program have appeared in recent months on Edmonton's CKUA radio and in weekly newspapers throughout the province. Addiction experts and academics in Canada, the United States ...
May 2, 2006
Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project — MSNBC
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeannette Walls
Source: MSNBC
Why is Janeane Garofalo touting a Scientology-linked project? The actress and talk-show host has done two segments on her Air America radio show “Majority Report,” heaping praise on the controversial New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program based on the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. On one show, her guests included Leah Remini, star of “King of Queens” and a devout Scientologist, who sang the praises of the detox project. Although the Detoxification Project has been heralded by ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 23, 2006
Inside Scientology — Rolling Stone
Type: Press
Author(s): Janet Reitman
Source: Rolling Stone
The faded little downtown area of Clearwater, Florida, has a beauty salon, a pizza parlor and one or two run-down bars, as well as a bunch of withered bungalows and some old storefronts that look as if they haven't seen customers in years. There are few cars and almost no pedestrians. There are, however, buses — a fleet of gleaming white and blue ones that slowly crawl through town, stopping at regular intervals to discharge a small army of tightly organized, ...
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Dec 14, 2005
Tom Cruise Blasted by 9/11 Firefighters — Hollywood.com
Type: Press
Source: Hollywood.com
HOLLYWOOD - Outspoken actor Tom Cruise has been criticized by firefighters suffering the effects of smoke inhalation from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks for his controversial views on their treatment. The Scientology devotee has urged emergency services victims to give up their medication and inhalers as part of a 'purification rundown,’ which favors sauna sessions, ingestion of cooking oil and large doses of niacin as cures instead. As co-founder of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, Cruise has also ...
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Nov 15, 2005
Alarm in prisons at Scientology drug cures aimed at inmates — The Guardian (UK)
Oct 15, 2005
Former hotel to see rebirth as church — Sacramento Bee (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Shalitt
Source: Sacramento Bee (California)
Another downtown landmark has been sold and targeted for remodeling. But the 76-year-old Ramona building at Sixth and J streets won't become office condos or upscale housing. It's becoming a church - the new area center of the Church of Scientology, known for celebrity members such as Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. The church just completed acquisition of the Spanish-style, five-story building, paying $4.75 million - in cash - to an investment group headed by Harry Gerdes. The Ramona ...
Aug 12, 2005
Lopez talks about finances and Scientology — Downtown Express
Type: Press
Author(s): Lincoln Anderson
Source: Downtown Express
Margarita Lopez is under fire for taking contributions from Scientology while giving funds to the group’s Downtown detox center, and is also at risk of losing public matching funds because of unresolved problems with her 2001 funds. Yet, the East Side councilmember, in a lengthy telephone interview on Monday, claimed she has done no wrong and expressed confidence in her campaign for borough president. Lopez blasted back at the New York Post — which broke the story of her Scientology contributions ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 5, 2005
Margarita Lopez stays mum through Scientology flap — Downtown Express
Type: Press
Author(s): Paul Schindler
Source: Downtown Express
The Manhattan borough president campaign of Margarita Lopez was knocked off stride this week by a one-two punch — from the right and the left as it were — about ties between the Lower East Side city councilmember and the Church of Scientology. In a series of three stories and an editorial that began Monday, the New York Post reported that Lopez was the key City Council player in securing $630,000 in city funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 24, 2005
Scientology comes to town // New religion in Pittsburgh brings controversy, high hopes — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Type: Press
Author(s): Virginia Linn
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the 1900 block of East Carson Street on the South Side, there's an unassuming storefront that marked its first anniversary last month. It's the Pittsburgh office of the Church of Scientology, the controversial religious movement that recently captured international headlines when celebrity disciple Tom Cruise became increasingly public and, at times, combative, about his beliefs. Although the office opened here with little fanfare, Scientologists have high hopes for its growth as they try to regain a foothold in the region ...
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Jul 3, 2005
An expanding universe // Scientology believes in aliens - and in buying lots of Manhattan real estate — NY Daily News (New York)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Adam Nichols
Source: NY Daily News (New York)
TOM CRUISE's leap of faith into Scientology is a visible example of the religion's hold on its followers — but the Church of Scientology already has a multimillion-dollar grip on Manhattan. The controversial group, now blitzing the media after Cruise became its most outspoken advocate, has a massive city empire used by tens of thousands of devotees. And New York's church president the Rev. John Carmichael said, "Interest is increasing markedly." Its huge seven-story city headquarters was opened last year at ...
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