1 2 3 ⇑ Latest ↑ Later Earlier ↓ Earliest ⇓ Apr 15, 2008
Planned academy tied to Scientology // 'Cult'-linked pilot school gains $20K grant — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Wedge Source:
Boston Herald A proposed taxpayer-funded pilot school linked to an arm of the controversial Church of Scientology has scored a $20,000 grant from a blue-chip Hub charitable foundation, the Herald has learned. The Boston Foundation recently awarded the planning grant to the proposed "Cornerstone for Success Academy," a high school for at-risk students that would base its curriculum on a model created by Applied Scholastics International - the educational arm of the Church of Scientology. The celebrity-backed religious organization is often criticized as ...
Feb 6, 2008
Second Chance seeks state funding (video) — KRQE
Nov 21, 2007
Utah Foots the bill for ailing cops' controversial Scientology-based detox treatment — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sara Bonisteel Source:
FOX News [Picture / Caption: Nov. 7: Ailing meth cops sweat it out at an Orem, Utah, clinic.] A controversial Church of Scientology treatment used on World Trade Center emergency responders is being used in Utah to "detoxify" cops who raided methamphetamine labs in the 1980s and 1990s. The Utah Meth Cops Project is treating around a dozen former and current police officers at taxpayers' expense, using a regime devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard at a Bio-Cleansing Centers of America facility ...
Nov 8, 2007
Meth cops swear they can sweat off toxins — Salt Lake Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nate Carlisle ,
Lisa Rosetta Source:
Salt Lake Tribune Meth cops swear they can sweat off toxics Utah officers undergo treatment at taxpayers expense; experts leery Salt Lake Tribune/November 8, 2007 By Nate Carlisle and Lisa Rosetta Orem – The first time Kelly Call stood beside a methamphetamine lab, he felt a burning in his lungs and eyes. He was exposed to dozens of labs over the years and has had short-term memory loss, shortness of breath and trouble sleeping. But he recently began to feel better, and he credits ...
Apr 16, 2007
State has little say in programs: 'NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND' LAW — The Wichita Eagle
Type: Press
Author(s):
Icess Fernandez Source:
The Wichita Eagle Here's a word problem for you: There are two tutoring programs in a Wichita school. One is very structured, complete with math worksheets and teachers giving direction. The other focuses on helping students explore learning with such techniques as playing with dough. Both are part of a $1 million federally mandated experiment. Which one will be the most effective in raising students' assessment test scores? Answer: No one will know until next year. And that's the real problem, some local educators ...
Apr 10, 2007
9/11 detox program finds home in Orem — Daily HeraldMore: 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
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. ...
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 ...
Feb 21, 2007
Second Chance seeks state boost — KRQE
Jan 22, 2007
Scientology Treatment Program for Prisoners Funded by Feds — Boston University School of Public Health
Type: Commentary
Source:
Boston University School of Public Health Federal tax dollars are helping to pay for a controversial addiction-treatment program for prisoners in New Mexico based on Scientology precepts, the Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 19.
The Second Chance program is billed as an alternative treatment program for nonviolent offenders and uses the principals of Scientology – such as using saunas, diet, massage and vitamins to purge the body of toxins – to fight addiction. In New Mexico, 24 of the state's 84 district judges have referred a total ...
Dec 10, 2006
Scientologists get £270,000 subsidy — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Adam Lusher Source:
The Telegraph (UK) The controversial Church of Scientology has been granted a subsidy of more than £270,000 a year in public money, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Scientology's lawyers used European rulings and Government equality regulations to force the City of London corporation to grant an 80 per cent rates discount for its new centre near St Paul's Cathedral. The "church", it is believed, is now pressing to pay nothing at all. The corporation confirmed that this discount was on the basis that Scientology ...
Sep 3, 2006
Drug offender center met with skepticism — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor ,
Scott Sandlin Source:
Albuquerque Journal New Mexico is about to become the first state to try a new approach in using longterm treatment in a lockup for chronic drug offenders. Officials hope the Second Chance Center, which opens this week in the old West Side jail, is the answer to a broken system that cycles drug offenders through courts and jails. Instead of sentencing nonviolent drug offenders to prison, judges will have the option of sentencing some to Second Chance. Inmates will spend eight hours a ...
Aug 29, 2006
Drug-rehab deal linked to politics, Scientology — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Michael Herzenberg Source:
KRQE This is KRQE News 13 with Dick Knipfing and Erika Ruiz. DICK KNIPFING: More than half a million dollars in taxpayer money has been allocated for a privately-run drug and alcohol treatment program for offenders. ERIKA RUIZ: But our investigations find the rehab facility is nothing more than a thinly-veiled program based on the teachings of the founder of Scientology. News 13's Michael Hertzenberg is here with the story. MICHAEL HERZENBERG: Erika, when you think of drug and alcohol rehab, you ...
Jun 2, 2006
Russian official jailed for forcing subordinates to study Scientology — Mosnews.com
Type: Press
Source:
Mosnews.com A former Russian MP, a local education chief, has been jailed for embezzlement and abuse of authority — he made his subordinates study scientology and used budget money to pay for their studies. Boris Shalimov of the Skovorodinsk region in Russia's Far East has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement and abuse of authority, the website of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office reports. In October 2002 Shalimov became a member of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. To get ...
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 ...
May 26, 2005
Scientology program may fall to budget ax — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The sponsor gets word that Bush plans to veto $500,000 for the prison program. TALLAHASSEE — A $500,000 program that uses some teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to help prison inmates likely will be vetoed by the governor today, the bill's sponsor says. The program, known as Criminon, was quietly added to the state budget by one powerful legislator: Rep. Gus Barreiro, a Miami Beach Republican. He heads the House subcommittee overseeing billions of dollars in criminal ...
Oct 21, 2004
Poisons, Begone! // The dubious science behind the Scientologists' detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers — Slate MagazineMore: Sidebar
Type: Press
Author(s):
Amanda Schaffer Source:
Slate Magazine In September 2002, the New York Rescue Workers Detox Project began to offer free "detoxification treatment" to firefighters, police officers, and others exposed to high levels of toxic debris in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse. The detox program—based on the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and detailed in his book Clear Body, Clear Mind —purports to "flush" poisons from the body's fat stores using an intensive regimen of jogging, oil ingestion, sauna, and high doses of vitamins, ...
Sep 1, 2004
Is Scientology in your schools? — The Humanist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robin Jacobs Source:
The Humanist For obvious reasons, the lauding of religious leaders isn’t supposed to be practiced in U.S. public schools, at least not as a class activity. Yet one widely used school program concludes by having students applaud Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The program is called Narconon, and it has notable Scientology links. The state of California is now in the midst of a three-month investigation of the Narconon Drug Prevention and Education program with an eye to possibly barring it from the ...
Jun 26, 2003
Tom Cruise pushes for FBI [Faith-Based Initiative] funding for Scientology — American Atheists
Type: Press
Source:
American Atheists It may be Pat Robertson's worst nightmare. Will the Church of Scientology be a recipient of President Bush's "Religion Tax" largesse to operate drug-alcohol rehab clinics and other social programs based on the group's strange teachings? The Washington Post is reporting that Scientology "cause celeb" Tom Cruise has been meeting this past week with key senior Bush administration officials at the Department of Education and even the White House. On Thursday, Secretary of Education Rod Paige reportedly hosted a lunch for ...
Feb 22, 2001
Faith-Based Welfare Puzzles Televangelist / He fears public funding of cults — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Feb 10, 2001
Scientology-linked project to get scrutiny — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steve Marantz Source:
Boston Herald A top Menino administration official said yesterday that a literacy project with ties to the Church of Scientology will be closely monitored in its use of city funds to help school-age children read. The group, H.E.L.P. Boston, received a $1,000 grant from the city's Safe Neighborhood Fund. The grant was approved by officials who knew of the program's connection to the controversial Scientology movement. But they apparently failed to tell Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who in a statement released by his ...
Dec 10, 1998
Scientology wants city's kids — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enzo Di Matteo Source:
NOW Magazine Quaint Clarkson, tucked away on the westernmost edge of Mississauga, seems as unlikely a place as any to find L. Ron Hubbard, sci-fi-writer-turned-icon and founder of the much-vilified Church of Scientology.
But here, just past the picket fences and over the train tracks where the old post office used to be, the portrait that graces Hubbard's opus Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health – sailor cap, face turned upward, blue sky in the background – hangs in the foyer of ...
Mar 2, 1998
Church keys programs to recruit blacks — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
May 17, 1994
Tower Hamlets "duped by Scientology rehab group" — Big Issue (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anthony Middleton Source:
Big Issue (UK) NARCONON, THE drug rehabilitation group which has close links with the controversial Church of Scientology, allegedly "duped" Tower Hamlets Council into referring an alcoholic to them. Both the Council and the drug agency which placed the addict on Tower Hamlet's behalf said that they would not be referring anyone else to the group. The Church of Scientology has been consistently criticised by cult watchdogs for its recruitment techniques and financial dealings. Narconon's rehabilitation method is based on the teachings of L. ...
Apr 1, 1994
Scientology links with rehabilitation group — Big Issue (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anthony Middleton Source:
Big Issue (UK) A GROUP which runs a national drug rehabilitation programme and gives regular lectures to schools is closely linked to the controversial Church of Scientology. Narconon, which bases its methods on the teachings of the Church's founder L Ron Hubbard, currently treats a small number of private-paying addicts each year. But it is has recently launched a major expansion programme, and Narconon claims that Tower Hamlet's social services department has paid the £500 per week fee for the three month treatment of ...
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)More: link
May 14, 1993
Letters to the editor // Same old line of attack — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) After dabbling... I still say stay away AT OUR monthly meeting held on Monday I asked how many of those who signed the letter from the clergy of East Grinstead (report and Letters, May 7) had visited Saint Hill. Four of us had. Our knowledge of Scientology is not confined to anti-Scientology literature, as Barbara Bradley seems to imply. Speaking for myself, I visited Saint Hill in September 1985. I have dipped into dianetics, which I admit did not interest me ...
Aug 23, 1990
Comment // Results are proof // My priority is clear — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) Results are proof MY interest in writing to you is humanitarian. I am a founding member of Narconon in England and have worked with young people on the Narconon programme. I have also assisted in the writing of an authoritative book on the subject called Drugs and Drug Rehabilitation. Possibly your article on Narconon last week failed in one respect, which was to delineate the difference between advice and total freedom from the effects of drugs on young lives. It is ...
Dec 28, 1981
Narconon: Anti-drug program with roots in Scientology doesn't live up to claims of support, success — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Oct 17, 1981
The Narconon sting: Scientology's Minnesota drug scam — Twin Cities ReaderMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Fishman Maccabee Source:
Twin Cities Reader "Narconon is the ONLY successful drug rehabilitation program on the planet." L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Church of Scientology "Narconon was definitely a con. It was bullsh •t. Those guys were forcing guys into Scientology." Narconon graduate St. Cloud Prison, Minnesota [Picture of internal memo: "We are expanding the Scientology drug rehabilitation programs, primarily through NARCONON. During the coming months we plan to get NARCONON programs into many additional prisons, rehabilitation centers and the armed forces. We also have plans to open ...
Page 2 of 3 :
⇑ Latest ↑ Later Earlier ↓ Earliest ⇓ Permalink