Scientology has invested tens of millions of dollars in creating and promoting their website scientology.org. They have a huge volume of content there — all their hype videos of org openings, VM activities, education efforts etc etc as well as links to every other scientology related website and anything else they can find. A huge amount of effort has been expended to make this a success in this online age. (Though you will note the “Scientology News” second item is the last ribbon yanking ceremony they held — more than a year ago, there is a not a whole lot of “news”).
They are failing miserably. Just like scientology.tv.
One of our faithful readers sent me a copy of a report from a website called SCAMQUERY. I have screencapped it below.
You will notice the “Trust Score” is “Very Poor (9/100).” These are the people who claim to be the most ethical beings on Earth, who once ran a TV ad titled “Trust”…
You will also see it lists the website popularity as “Good” with a traffic rank of #111,417. This is only helpful to know when compared to other sites. It means there are 111,416 other sites on the internet that get more traffic than scientology.org.
So, just for fun I looked up my blog to make a comparison. This blog that is administered by me, as a part time activity, that has never been advertised anywhere or done anything to get links or any of the other things people do to improve SEO and rankings…
Hmmm, my website seems safe.
And also has “Good” website traffic — rank #79,471, which is 31,946 better than scientology.org.
And that says it all.
Hi Mike,
I note your post above included comment about a huge amount of effort in this online age to expand. I find this very interesting and timely and would be interested to see if others are seeing increased activities across the world.
Possibly because of the Covid pandemic this sets up non-contact platforms to drive up revenue and clandestine recruitment opportunities. I am aware of a business being ramped up here in Australia with direct links back to WISE and the Hubbard Administrative Technology which is raising some red flags with me. Would be interested in what others may have observed along with how strong a WISE still is.
Happy to prove names in a private email at this stage.
This data can’t be known to scamatologists, it must not be known!!
I’m sending The Wolf.
So glad to see this Mike. You are making progress.
I find it interesting that a Scientologist executive is commended and lauded by the organization for their ascent up the Bridge but if they decide to leave the organization—at that very moment of their decision—they are labeled by Scientology as wife beaters, child abusers, and worse.
So does that mean that Scientology is admitting that these executives were wife beaters, child abusers, and worse DURING the entire time they were ascending the Bridge? That would have to be the case. How could an executive be lauded one day, and then the next day when they decide to leave, they instantly become wife beaters, etc?
That alone, proves that the courses, programs, the ascent up the Bridge, and the entire ‘religion’ is a farce. Or worse, that Scientology is overrun with, and is okay with, wife beaters, child abusers, etc. being part of the organization.
One would think that Scientology would figure out that this comes across as ridiculous.
Anyway, keep up the good fight Mike.
Bravo, Mike Rinder! Well done!
On a shoe string and part time, with NO regging, on your own money along with donations only ever FREELY given, your blog traffic beats out Scientology TV’s traffic despite their spending 10s of millions and squeezing their members for their every dime they have to make their Whole Track Boondoggle a success.
Then again, Mike, your writing is top notch and you happen to be “disseminating” truth.
So maybe you DO have something of an unfair advantage over Miscavige, who, along with his endless millions, has only End of Endless Sentence Course Completion Danny Sherman, and endless bullshit.
Damn good considering that DM has been trying to stop Mike and his blog and has an almost unlimited supply of cash to hire PIs and computer hackers paid for by the tax free dollars regged by many IAS regged. He is beating the entire Scn Management at it’s own game!
Scientology does not give to the poor. Then They are cursed.
Proverbs 28:27
Those who give to the poor will lack nothing,
but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses
You know, that’s true. For the past 6 months I’ve been tithing small amounts (and I do mean “small”) each month to various and sundry causes and charities. I am now on EVERYBODY’S list but that’s ok. Animal rights, animal adoption efforts, feeding people in the 3rd world, soup kitchens in my city, national park preservation, support for organic farming, paralyzed vets, cripples who paint and draw with paint brushes and crayons in their teeth – all kinds of things. I send small amounts – VERY modest sums, to pretty much whatever comes in, each month. I fill out surveys too. Never more than $175 a month but I send out a LOT of checks.
And let me tell you: it comes back to you, helping the truly needy. It really does!
I think of the money I unknowingly threw away on the IAS and Ideal Orgs – not that much compared to many others but so much more than $175 per month!
And yet, this small amount has brought me luck AND business, during the darkest days of the pandemic.
The Bible is right. Its not just “outflow = inflow”. Its TO WHOM and TO WHAT you outflow that brings the good luck.
This might sound esoteric but I do believe that the reason I didn’t experience good luck and good fortune after having given (for me) substantial moneys to the IAS and Ideal Orgs was ONLY because these programs were SCAMS. They were NOT helping ANYONE. Of course at the time I BELIEVED they were helping. But they weren’t. Ergo, no good luck came to me from contributing to them despite the amounts being much greater.
This is a concept that is actually blowing me away. During the pandemic I’ve also been if you’ll pardon the expression religiously giving things away – clothes that don’t fit that were mistakes, even if they’re nearly new and wearable, ditto shoes, boots, gloves, jewelry…kitchen things, sheets…just… things. Just stuff. I don’t really like it, it doesn’t make me happy – out! Somebody wants it, somebody needs it, somebody is GLAD to have it! Let me tell you, this is a great feeling! And it brings me luck!
Thanks for reading my “win” 🙂
this is wonderful.
One day I was driving up to an intersection and saw a person there with a sign for help, and all hell broke loose in my mind
I ripped open my wallet and shoved what little cash I had in the fellas hand as I came up to him, it wasn’t much, ten or twelve bucks.
I was pretty filled with rage at the enormity of the highjacking of my humanity.
Giving to a “DB” that’s what those MotherF*ckers would consider it. It’s “HARMFUL to give to downstats”
That moment of seeing him stays with me. I give what I want, when I want.
I’ve always been happiest helping, doing things for others. Every bit now, is healing.
Giving, in so many ways, has been a huge part of reclaiming a bit of my soul.
It’s wonderful to read your victory. 🙂
Right back at you with that, Rip 🙂 Great to read your victory too 🙂
(also, did you give to the Arbor Day Foundation? They send you trees and stickers and labels and stuff!)
LOL! Not yet, but they’ll find me 🙂 All one has to do is send a few dollars to ANY of these organizations – I’ve sent as little as $5 and $8, and you’re on their lists, and they forward your info to other organizations. It doesn’t take much! I can hardly get my mailbox open, some days. And each place is getting peanut money from me and I do mean “peanut”.
Very nice win, Aquamarine.
Thank you, Cindy 🙂
Still remarkable the cult’s website isn’t updated more than a few times a year. Members aren’t allowed to discuss or even think about the cult, so the internet is of little use to them.
Only one-way communications are allowed, where they gush ebulliently about triumphant wins.
The site does have regular PR puff pieces, where small groups of volunteer ministers solve the drug problem in the third world by holding up banners. These efforts have been successful beyond words according to the site.
Mike, good job on all of your success. I am stoked to see how well you and Leah are doing with the new podcast. Not only is your blog safe, you are safe. You are an exceptional human being. Thank you for all of the work you are doing to expose the truth about Scientology and L Ron Hubbard.
Thanks for the info on Scamquery. This is fun?
I checked out volunteerministers.org and it has been around for 25 years. Not only is it marked SUSPICIOUS, it has no secure connection therfore it is not a safe. The website has a very poor trust rating (6/100).
Congratulations!
I love that the stat-obsessed cherch can’t buy a reputation.
The fact that your blog gets more traffic than Scientology.org must infuriate Miscavagie if he is aware of it.
Oh, you can bet that Miscavige is aware of this! Poor Tiny Fists. Or more accurately, poor anybody in his immediate vicinity who has to deal with him.
Rinder’s blog rating…not bad for a ‘defrocked apostate’ on the ‘fringe of the Internet’.
George, I’m of much the same opinion. Until they/we moved to Clearwater, he was still in the middle of things and making advances. Then in ’75-76 he did what he did best: run away and hide, leaving things to naturally decay. In ’78 IIRC, he thunk up NED which was a vast improvement over HSDC and ;especially book 1 auditing. NED got me to a floating TA and attesting to ‘clear’. The only problem was that afterwards came the big CRASH as the reality of my situation sunk in. What I attested to was nothing like he promised. What I am now, after 40 years of disconnection, is closer to what I expected from his scribblings. “scientology: making the able less able since 1950.”
Jere. This reminded me of something I had almost forgotten about.
In the beginning, I became a Dianetics auditor. I was good and also gave demonstrations in public.
However, every time they tried to audit me, we went nowhere. I always found episodes, I moved on the track great I saw well and remembered well but never once that I have really solved something.
It was as if I knew that what I was seeing was detached from me. A bit difficult to explain it like this on the spot.
However I was naturally less reactive and more in present time than many others already well-traveled like pc’s.
Someone told me that I could be clear from another life. Well it was all bullshit.
Only after I got out and started practicing meditation – many years later – I understood at least partially why. And nothing to do with what scn ‘offers’ (crap on a long range)
I agree with the crash after the move to Clearwater. After 1978, Scientology was all about the money. I got caught up in it for nothing.
Jere – I think NED, New Era Dianetics, was on the Scn Grade Chart as early as 1970. I guess it replaced “Book One”, Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health, auditing procedures. NED is a simple set of ten or eleven auditing questions and “commands” done on the e-meter.
Around 1977 or 1978 Elron decided that people could “go clear” on NED. Some say he did that to more quickly push people onto the expensive OT levels.
Here’s the article about the ever changing definition of Clear written by David Mayo in 1989 when he was an independent scn.
http://www.ivymag.org/iv-01-02.html
Like yourself, Jere, I attested to dianetic clear around 1979. At the end of Mayo’s article he concludes that after an indeterminate number of hours of auditing and going clear you might be clear-er than before. I’ll go with that – lol.
I quit soon after attesting so I never got into the space opera.
Congratulations Mike. Cream rises to the top and that is you.
Your efforts to expose Scientology are met with rewards of prosperity and fame, as we all witness how you are flourishing and prospering. Congratulations and I hope to see you continue.
With regards to Scientology and their untrusted websites, that is simply a microcosm of the macrocosm.
Scientology is a dangerous cult that will trap you, drain you of all assets, family and friends and leave you for dead without remorse. Scientology and Scientologists cannot be trusted -ever. Never go to their websites. They probably hack your computer and spy on everyone. I would not doubt that for one minute.
Scientology – SCAMQUERY are statistics you can’t pay for, extort or bribe.
It’s the truth. It’s science.
Mike! Well what else to add but congratulations!
Imagine if you worked on it full time.
Scn has that rank because it invests a lot of money to have click farms in some exotic land to keep that stat up somehow but it isn’t still enough. Otherwise it would be well below the threshold of what is even minimally mentionable.
scientology.org NOT to be trusted!? That IS news, isn’t it?
scientology/scientologists lie, must lie, can’t not lie. That’s required by its “scripture”. Otherwise the whole accumulation(It’s not a structure) just falls apart.
Jere they love to call it ‘giving an acceptable truth’.
What really amazes me (I learned it only after I left) is that these acceptable truths are made first of all for their own members.
Happy belated Blog-Birthday Mike
On a side note: please replace all written etc. with blah, blah, blah … Its difficult to hear your voice reading your blog in my head without a Mike Rinder blah.
To ‘inflate your tires’…
You write better, you present better, You answer questions without a lie. It’s easy to understand why your ranked better.
Everything they present is a lie and its covered with a 5% truth wrapper and unless your in the real world, that wrapper looks very pretty. I wish I could convince my friend to read your blog, I really do
I do have a COS history (been free a long, long time) so I know how much you sacrifice to continue to expose them and I thank you for that
WOW!!!!!
Truly does say it all.
Wow Mike. Good job.
Sciendollatry has deceitfully and fraudulently milked billions out of their followers to advertise.
They just had to have SuMP (Scientology Media Productions) which is a total utter failure and being nothing. It is dead.
Put up Ideal Orgs around the Globe and they are all sitting empty and vacant and boarded up.
Scientology has spent millions on Super Bowl ads each year.
Scientology has also paid “click farms” to get their stats up and they still FLUNKED.
Their websites are not safe. Well that’s an understatement.
Meanwhile…You and Leah are big time stars WINNING TOP AWARDS & hopefully getting paid to SHOW the world how evil Scientology is ( I hope you both make tons of money btw). You both deserve it.
Thank you ! You are awesome.
This is karma. Thank you God of karma.
Sciendollartry! Brilliant.
In my opinion, Mike Rinder’s blog has evolved into the absolute best information ever about the scam cult Scientology. That is probably why he outranks even the millions spent by Miscavige and his band of thieves. Mike is open to ideas and strikes a great balance between reporting and depth of coverage. In the 1970’s I did personally benefit from Dianetic auditing because there was nothing else available. Hubbard had simply developed a way to review mental trauma caused by other people. But after the 1970’s, the organization grew in the wrong direction. I still to this day have a warm spot in my heart for the positive changes I experienced with Dianetics. But I can honestly say that as I experienced the development of Scientology it ruined my life.
George – You have been commenting on Scn blogs for many years and you have never before said Scn “ruined my life”. I thought you had put it into perspective.
Counted up the total hours spent with Scientology and the constant attention to it. Finally realized where I would have gone without it.
Okay – No two people had the exact same experience. Many factors go into it..
The same experience in scientology I meant to say if that wasn’t clear.