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Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 16 Scientology Versus Medicine — Tower Publications, Inc.
Feb 1, 1970
Dear Editor // Sick in the head — Mechanix Illustrated
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Mechanix Illustrated
[...] * Sick in the head. How right Frank Remington was in his article, Are You Really Sick? (November MI) even he probably doesn't know. The cause and cure of all psychosomatic ills was revealed in 1950 in the book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard. Since that time the technology used to treat psychosomatic illness has been improved to the point that such illnesses can be resolved 100 per cent of the time by standard ...
Jan 22, 1970
Dianetics guarantees victory over drugs — Honolulu Advertiser
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 3: Enter Dianetics — Delacorte Press
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 4: Scientology — Delacorte Press
Nov 9, 1969
Scientology -- Cult with millions of followers led by man who claims he's visited heaven twice — National Enquirer
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Ralph Lee Smith
Source: National Enquirer
How profitable Scientology has become is one of the organization's most closely guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth of founder L. Ron Hubbard have ranged up to $7 million. In 1963 the Internal Revenue Service claimed the church earned more than $750,000 in the United States from 1955 through 1959, the year Hubbard moved international headquarters from Washington, D.C., to England. There, according to the Los Angeles Times, world receipts rose to $140,000 weekly in 1968. —– In New ...
Nov 7, 1969
CT Classic: Scientology: Religion or Racket? — Christianity Today
Type: Press
Author(s): Joseph Martin Hopkins
Source: Christianity Today
Offices of the American Psychiatric Association are located in the seventeen hundred block of Eighteenth Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. The Founding Church of Scientology is at 1812 Nineteenth Street, one block farther out. Figuratively speaking, the world's largest mental-health organization is considerably farther out than that.Even its members will concede that it is far out. After a hurried interview with Miss Anne Ursprung, top executive of the Founding Church, I managed an extension of time by driving her and fellow staff ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 29, 1969
Scientology: Total freedom and beyond — The Nation
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: The Nation
DONOVAN BESS Mr. Bess is on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco This is the year of Apollo 11. It is also the year in which that psychological sophisticate, Richard Alpert, came back from his guru in India to reap a big following of inner-space explorers with his story of spiritual conversion. It is a lime of burgeoning meditation societies on the college campuses, and of passionate rebellion against the amorality of our technology. Thus it ...
Sep 1, 1969
Allen Kapuler — Business (Sparks, Nevada)
Aug 25, 1969
Scientology boom // A disputed religion growth — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Today and tonight hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Californians will sit down in pairs and stare at one another. One of them will give the other commands such as "Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." The one who is commanded will hold two tin cans attached by wires to an E-meter, a device that measures electrical resistance in the body. The commander will watch a needle on the device's circuit board in the belief that it measures emotional charge. ...
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): John Dart
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...
Jun 1, 1969
The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology — Parents' Magazine
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Arlene Eisenberg, Howard Eisenberg
Source: Parents' Magazine
When ministers of the Founding Church of Scientology told a Falls Church, Virginia couple that could teach the couple's defective son to talk and raise his IQ at same time, the man and wife, understandably in search of a miracle, willingly paid—in advance—the sum of $3,000 as a "contribution for spiritual guidance." The husband cashed a life insurance policy, sold some bonds, added the proceeds of a small bequest and "scraped around in various places." And then his son Paul's "processing" ...
Mar 16, 1969
How to confront in Scientology / Can you stare for 2 hours and not blink? — Detroit Free Press
Feb 14, 1969
Victory for the Scientologists — TIME Magazine
Feb 7, 1969
U.S. court rules Scientology is a real religion — Chicago Tribune
Jan 3, 1969
Doctor in the clear — GP (UK)
Dec 1, 1968
SCIENTOLOGY – Menace to Mental health — Today's Health
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Ralph Lee Smith
Source: Today's Health
Couched in pseudoscientific terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons—for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health. [Picture / Caption: L. Ronald Hubbard, Scientology's founder.] [Picture / Caption: Bust of Hubbard flanks "altar" in Scientology "church" near London. Among his accomplishments, Hubbard claims to have been dead and recovered, to have visited Venus and heaven.] LAST SUMMER in New York City, ...
Nov 15, 1968
Scientology: A growing cult reaches dangerously into the mind — Life Magazine
More: blog.modernmechanix.com, lermanet.com
Nov 3, 1968
Dianetics and Scientology // Cultural lag // Some tips on studying — Wessex News (UK) [Scientology publication?]
More: link
Jul 24, 1967
Electric devices to be destroyed — AMA News
More: link
Type: Press
Source: AMA News
A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the destruction of a collection of electric devices seized by the federal government from the Founding Church of Scientology. A jury ruled earlier that more than 100 "Hubbard E Meters" were misbranded because of labeling claims that they were effective for diagnosis, prevention, detection and elimination of the causes of all mental and nervous disorders (The AMA News, May 15, 1967). Federal attorneys said the only demonstrated effect of the machines ...
Mar 6, 1967
House of Commons / Official report / Parliamentary debates
Oct 1, 1966
Scientology and the FDA — Fate Magazine
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard E. Saunders
Source: Fate Magazine
Public will pay high price for its apathy — if even government agencies become electronic snoops. MOST AMERICANS take religious freedom for granted. Some may be vaguely aware that it is guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution because some of the very early settlers on this continent came in search of just this freedom, but their general attitude is one of indifference. Unfortunately their lofty assumption that churches never are harassed in this country is incorrect. Even more unfortunately, ...
Feb 14, 1966
Attention the Minister of Health: This man is bogus — Daily Mail (UK)
More: link
Feb 7, 1966
House of Commons / Official report / Parliamentary debates
Oct 1, 1964
L. Ron Hubbard: An opinion and a summing up — Borderline
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard G. Sipes
Source: Borderline
[Borderline Vol. 1 Number 2 October 1964] A bold Borderline personality who remains a controversial figure: From Dianetics to Scientology. Is he a sage or a charlatan? L. RON HUBBARD: AN OPINION AND A SUMMING UP LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD first made news in 1950 with Dianetics, an allegedly new theory of the human mind and behavior, and one which orthodox psychologists and psychiatrists have refused to condone. He has been in the news periodically ever since. Most men of action receive ...
Jun 3, 1964
"Utter ignorance" of physics in Scientology writings / Doctor tells inquiry — The Age (Australia)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Source: The Age (Australia)
A DOCTOR told the scientology inquiry yesterday that writings by scientology leader L. R. Hubbard showed "complete and utter ignorance of physics, medical science and medicine." He was Dr. Hendrik Ithos Sydney Van den Brenk, doctor in charge of the Radiological Research Laboratories at the Cancer institute Board, Melbourne. Dr. Van den Brenk said statements by Hubbard about cancer were "quackery of the worst nature." There was nothing to indicate that Hubbard was a person capable of developing a formula which ...
Mar 21, 1964
Have You Ever Been A Boo-Hoo? — Saturday Evening Post
More: saturdayeveningpost.com (2.5 MB), link, scientology-lies.com
Type: Press
Author(s): James Phelan
Source: Saturday Evening Post
Saint Hill Manor is a traditional old English mansion that stands behind a high gateway on a quiet Sussex road some 30 miles south of London. Its size and age—it was built in 1728—give it an impressive but faintly brooding air. Before 1959 it was owned by the Maharaja of Jaipur, and before that by Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle. But it is a safe bet that in all its 236 years Saint Hill Manor has never seen anybody quite like its ...
Dec 8, 1963
Australians look into Scientology / Ask if preclear and entheta constitute medical fraud — New York Times
Apr 7, 1963
Scientology claims cure, chases Reds, vexes U.S. — Detroit Free Press
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Jack Mann
Source: Detroit Free Press
When the Church of Scientology offered last August to send its E Meter into battle against Communist subversion, President Kennedy didn't even say, "No thanks." Because this religious organization when scorned has political fury of a Hell it doesn't especially believe in, Mr. Kennedy will hear more about his oversight. In the meantime, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized the E Meter. FDA, bureaucratically unconcerned with any spiritua or ideological magic the machine might work, had United States ...
Jan 12, 1963
The Miracles Isles — Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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