Fact-checking scientology's answer to Senator Xenophon

= Church of Scientology's response in full =

= Breakdown of response =

Numbers of members
Evidence suggests that the membership numbers cited by the Church of Scientology are highly exaggerated.

See: Wikipedia - Church of Scientology: Membership statistics

Humanitarian work
See also: Why We Protest - CoS Front Groups

Drug Free Ambassadors/Marshalls






Study Tech/Applied Scholastics






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Scientology "Human Rights" Groups
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Volunteer Ministers
Critical Essay on the Volunteer Ministers:

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News Stories:

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Legitimacy as a religion
'Scientology's status as a religion is not'' universally accepted. See:'''





Apostates
The essay quoted above, was written at the request of the Church of Scientology, whose "special interest in the question of the reliability of apostates is based on the fact that it has been the target of apostate-based media "exposés" and civil litigation."

This disclosure appears to have been removed from the author's website sometime around mid 2005.

Anonymous
These accusations were put to Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis by CNN's John Roberts in news piece entitled "Scientology vs. Anonymous" (Excerpt below):


 * American Psychiatric Association's President Nada Stotland, M.D., called CCHR a hategroup. Video at http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APA/14276

Success stories
In many scientology' courses and programmes, writing one's "success story" is compulsory. {citation needed} Having said that, there are scientologists that are truly gaining from their courses, especially the introductory ones, as they would also do from other courses dealing with the same issues (e.g. communication).

Abortion
See:


 * http://wiki.whyweprotest.net/Evidence_of_coerced_abortions
 * http://wiki.whyweprotest.net/Forced_abortion_in_Scientology

Financial misdealings
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