The Lippard Blog

My talk from January 19, 2013 to the National Capitol Area Skeptics is now online! Thanks very much to the NCAS for professionally recordi...

The title of this post is the title of my multi-book review article in the current issue of Skeptic magazine , which is primarily about las...

Here's a famous photograph of pulp fiction author and Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard holding a tomato plant connected to an E-Meter....

Jeff Hawkins was a Scientologist and member of the Sea Org from 1967 to 2005.  He was responsible for 1980s marketing campaigns that brought...

Former Arizona state legislator Pamela Gorman, or someone claiming to be her, took issue with the following passage in her Wikipedia entry :...

Former Arizona State Representative Pamela Gorman, whose promo video proudly proclaims her to be a gun-toting Bible thumper, spent some of ...

A few years ago, I noted that popular and wealthy libertarian investment writer Douglas Casey was making tacit references to L. Ron Hubbard ...

The St. Petersburg Times has published another three-part exposé on the Church of Scientology based on interviews with former high-level me...

Paul Haggis, director of the film "Crash" (not to be confused with the David Cronenberg film of the same name), has left Scientolo...

Continuing the postings of The Arizona Skeptic ; you can find volume 1 (1987-1988) here , volume 2 (1988-1989) here , volume 3 (1989-1990) i...

Continuing the postings of The Arizona Skeptic ; you can find volume 1 (1987-1988) here , volume 2 (1988-1989) here , volume 3 (1989-1990) i...

I've begun putting old issues of The Arizona Skeptic online as PDFs, starting with the old Phoenix Skeptics News , edited by Ron Harvey...

The third part of the St. Petersburg Times story on Scientology, "Ecclesiastical justice," is out, and it's a bit of a disap...

Part two of the three-part series in the St. Petersburg Times on Scientology has been published, and it's a detailed account of the dea...

It turns out former head of Scientology's Office of Special Affairs Mike Rinder , who left the Church of Scientology in 2007 , has decid...

I'll be giving a talk during the pre-conference workshop sessions at this week's American Humanist Association conference , which is...

Evidence continues to mount that human decision-making occurs in the brain prior to conscious awareness of the decision , which is evidence ...

Jeff Jacobsen has a new article on Scientology's use of religious R-1 visas to bring people from other countries to the U.S. to work at...

Via the Village Voice , a prerecord call promoting a Scientology event by Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson (and a Scientologist):

Jeff Jacobsen and Mark Bunker are hosting a 90-minute Internet radio show on the battle between Scientology and the Internet that took place...