Episode 72: Stefani Hutchison Exposing the Lies
January 11 Episode 72: Stefani Hutchison Exposing the Lies
We bring back one of our favorites this week, the wonderful Stefani Hutchison. Stefani was never a scientologist, but has taken up the cudgel of exposing the lies of scientology on her excellent blog: Confront and Shatter. In this episode, we cover some of the sleuth work Stefani has done, investigating the claims made by scientology and their front groups. Links to her pieces are below.
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Confront and Shatter Blog
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Scientology Cruise Ship Claim
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The Freedom of Misdirection
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Volunteer Ministers Just Passing Through for a Photo Op
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Scientology Bestows Upon Itself Another Fake Award
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Photo Op Flop
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Another One Bites the Dust
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he Volunteer Ministers... We Give Up
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Two More Nopes for the Volunteer Ministers
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Volunteer Ministers Fake Another Good Dee
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Scientology Lie
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Surprise! They Lied Again
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Volunteer Ministers Busted Once Again
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9/11: Scientology’s Biggest Lie to Date
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
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11 Comments
Keep up the great work you two. Ms Leah – your concern for total strangers shows how much love you bring into the world and pay it forward. F #### Scientology – you’ve raised a kid who is going to make the world a better place. As some who has to live in the world in which she will interact , I appreciate you raising such a person. Thanks for making the world a better place.
I was so glad you talked about Venezuela! I’m Venezuelan but I live in the U.S. I’ve been a fan of the show since day 1 and recently started listening to the podcast. I vividly remember a scene for the A&E show when it showed different headlines about what scientology claims to be their accomplishments. One made refence to something like Scientology helped bring happiness to venezuela up by like 30% (paraphrasing). I laughed so hard! If anyone has ever heard of Venezuela in the past at least 10 years can now that’s a lie!! I did check at that point and saw it listed a Scientology center in just one city in Venezuela, but It is OF COURSE BS! Maybe is not even true they had a functioning center there! If anything they are just as oppressive as The Venezuelan Government. However, I do have a question. Listening to this episode and how they “helped refugees” doesn’t go against their own policy of not helping others because charity is bad?
Listener Question (specifically re: episode 72):
Like everything in Scientology, there is absolutely zero logic in their seeking out (faking) awards from first responders, fire and police departments and then hyping said awards. Isn’t this the same organization that actively trains its members to distrust, lie to, and mislead the police? My question is – does that indoctrination to hate the police happen only at the Sea Org level or is it also present at the parishioner level? It seems evident that Scientology has ZERO respect for law, order, and police departments. Wouldn’t these members/parishioners be suspect and at least have to acknowledge the blatant hypocrisy happening?
I faithfully listen to every episode and love you both to bits!
Leah- this is unrelated to the episode but can you ask/interview Kevin James at some point? I’d be interested to hear if he thought you were trying to bring him into Scientology. Were you actively pursuing him to join the church?
Alanzosblog.com. Who is this guy? Says he’s a former Scientologist. He’s calling Tony Ortega an “anti-cultist” , demanding that you articulate your “crimes” , et., ad weirdness. Is this a scientology hate site? His point of view appears quite confused.
Thank you! I LOVE you guys.
He’s just an internet troll who tries to gain attention by claiming variously that Leah, Tony and I are liars, agents of the government, OSA agents, working for Big Pharma or whatever fantasy he comes up with in his fevered dreams.
Do you think Tom Cruise believes all this false propaganda? or is he and Miscavage partnering in this scam that is scientology? He must be reaping the monetary rewards.
What about the scientologists who are taking these photo ops? Are they not questioning why they are doing it when they know damn well they didn’t do any of these good things they are claiming? The mind reels with questions for the participants of all the nonsense and how they justify it to themselves. Are they paid to keep the truth secret?
Thanks for all you do to expose this organization! xo
Hi Leah and Mike,
I was in Clearwater, FL, last week for the first time on vacation. Being a huge fan of the Aftermath and Fair Game, I had to check out the Bates-Motel-of-Churches and their gaudy American sweat shops. First of all- they’re even bigger and more wasteful than I had originally thought! Second of all- it’s so sad that a cult has taken up ownership of so much real estate in such a beautiful area. Any updates on what’s happening with the Clearwater + Scientology problem?
Stephanie, you are legit! I am so impressed with what you are doing, I’d love to help. Reaching out to your website as I just listened to this episode tonight. Well done, mama!
OMF GOD!! This is my new favorite type of episode. Can you please work some more Stefani fact checking episodes in the fold.
I have listened to all of the episodes this week. Whew… I am a retired teacher and would like to do something to get these kids into accredited schools. Any clues where I would begin this process?