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Dec 4, 2006
Woman sues former employer for religious discrimination — Springfield Business JournalMore: groups.yahoo.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matthew Wagner Source:
Springfield Business Journal A Springfield woman has alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was fired in 2004 from a Branson West company for refusing to convert to Scientology, the chosen religion of her boss and several co-workers. Brianne Shahan filed the suit against Richmond Monroe Group Inc. in U.S. District Court last month. Shahan claims her former employer violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allegedly pressuring her to divorce her husband and become a Scientologist. According to its ...
Jun 1, 2006
Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and the Church of Scientology in Cold War America — Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Type: Research
Author(s):
Hugh B. Urban Source:
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Hugh B. Urban is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, 431 Hagerty Hall, Columbus, OH 43210. From Tom Cruise’s wedding to South Park’s scathing cartoon parody, the Church of Scientology has emerged as one of the wealthiest, most powerful but also most controversial new religious movements of the last fifty years. Remarkably, however, it has rarely been subjected to serious, critical study by historians of religions, in large part because of the ...
Jan 1, 2002
The news about the news / American journalism in peril / A risky story — Random House, Inc.
Type: Press
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Leonard Downie Jr. ,
Robert G. Kaiser Source:
Random House, Inc. READ THE ARTICLE (Thanks to nytimes.com for access to their archives.):
Scientology's Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt
New York Times
March 9, 1997
By Douglas Frantz
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by a writer named L. Ron Hubbard. For years Scientology sought to persuade the Internal Revenue Service that it was a religion and deserved the same tax deduction given to traditional religious groups. Scientology took in hundreds of millions of dollars, and for decades ...
Sep 1, 1998
When Scholars Know Sin — Skeptic magazineMore: skeptic.com
Jan 30, 1998
Special feature / An in-depth examination of Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of California, a remarkable case poised for another round of appellate review [article authored by the Church of Scientology International] — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: link
Apr 10, 1995
Letters to the Editor / Scientology in the workplace — Wall Street JournalMore: link
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Wall Street Journal One thing was undisputed in your March 22 page-one article, "How Allstate Applied Scientology Methods to Train Its Managers," about management seminars delivered to agents at Allstate Insurance Co.: the management technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard works. As one of the sales managers who took the seminar summed it up, Mr. Hubbard's management technology is "very powerful in its simplicity." This sentiment is echoed by hundreds of thousands of business owners, executives, employees and professionals around the world. It seems ...
Jun 14, 1993
Church's litany of lawsuits — The National Law JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Blum Source:
The National Law Journal Scientology's leaders say the best defense is a good offense. DID THE CHURCH of Scientology kill a judge's dog during a trial? Did the judge, who is now dead, think church members did? Did that lead him to be prejudiced, and bias the jury against the church? These and other issues are part of an intense battle by the church's litigation machine to overturn what remains of a $30 million verdict won in 1986 by former church member Larry Wollersheim. Mr. ...
Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Russ W. Baker Source:
Village Voice And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Aug 14, 1991
Leading the charge against Prozac // Lawyer Leonard Finz is up against Eli Lilly, and the verdict is still out — Washington Post
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 7, 1991
Members react to campaign discrediting Prozac, psychiatry — Psychiatric NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Karel Source:
Psychiatric News The following is the first of a two-part series to be concluded in the next issue. The impact of Scientology's ongoing war on psychiatry, now focused on the antidepressant drug Prozac, was a topic of discussion in the corridors and lecture halls of this year's annual meeting in New Orleans. Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) director Frederick Goodwin, M.D., discussed the anti-Prozac campaign of the Scientologist's antipsychiatry affiliate, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). "The disingenuously named ...
Jun 4, 1991
[Advertisement] Prozac / Eli Lilly's "Miracle" — USA Today
Aug 5, 1989
Ex-Scientologist calls church a moneymaker, not a religion — Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)More: news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chester Sheard Source:
Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee) Claims that the Church of Scientology is a religion are false, a former member charged. The church is an intelligence and information agency that uses mind manipulation, hypnotism and other methods to gradually turn members into agents to financially enhance the organization, said Larry Wollersheim, a former salesman and touring spokesman for the Church of Scientology. After spending 11 years as an active member in the church Wollersheim, 40, a native of Milwaukee, sued the organization In 1980 for intentional and ...
Aug 12, 1986
'Expert' turns bad trial into bad verdict — Journal-AmericanMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Arnold Source:
Journal-American Why do I have to spend so much time defending religions I don't belong to? I didn't really want a scrapbook of columns sticking up for persecuted Jews, Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Taoists, Native American Shamanists, Moonies and Scientologists, among others. The question that troubles me most, though, is why do I have to defend them from our own government? The reason, of course, is that I don't want the First Amendment repealed. And a Los Angeles jury did just that July ...
May 28, 1985
Unorthodox Scientologists don't get fair treatment — Journal-AmericanMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Arnold Source:
Journal-American I'm out a Scientologist, but I find the recent $39 million jury verdict in Portland against the Church el Scientology deeply disturbing. Last year Rev. Sun Myung Moon was jailed for doing what Catholic archbishops do all the time — holding church property in his own name — and now Scientology loses a court case for practicing its pastoral counseling technique. These attacks on controversial religions must stop. Plaintiff Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, 27, was awarded the $39 million judgment on claims ...
Mar 13, 1982
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Jul 20, 1979
When friends or patients ask about... Cults — Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Nov 16, 1978
'Honesty group' claims reward offer yields 'corruption data' — The State Journal (Lansing, Michigan)
Apr 1, 1951
Dianetics. L Ron Hubbard, 452 pages. Hermitage House, New York, 1950, $4.00 [review] — American Journal of Digestive DiseasesMore: link
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American Journal of Digestive Diseases DIANETICS. L. Ron Hubbard, 452 pages. Hermitage House, New York, 1950, $4.-00. Because a considerable mass of non-medical people have been puzzled by this book, and some of them seek the opinion of physicians with respect to its value, it might be an advantage if the physician could have it appraised without being forced to read it. This review, made for that purpose, takes the attitude that Hubbard has not produced any scientific proof to support his theories, and consequently "dianetics ...
Feb 12, 1951
Dianetics founder challenges psychiatry to mental duel — Elizabeth Daily JournalMore: link
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Elizabeth Daily Journal L. Ron Hubbard, of Elizabeth, founder of the controversial new mental health science of dianetics, today hurled a challenge at the psychiatric profession, many members of which have sharply criticized his theories. Mr. Hubbard, organizer of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation at 275 Morris avenue, suggested that two impartial judges select two neurotic individuals, without previous advice from either psychiatrists or dianeticists. The psychiatrists would treat the patients for a week, under his proposal, with psychometries — tests, to the laymen ...
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