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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Books critical of Scientology, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, Blown for Good, Bare-faced Messiah, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, The Road to Total Freedom, Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology, The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology, Another Gospel, Hollywood Undercover, Inside Scientology: How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman, The Secrets of Scientology, A Doctor's Report on Dianetics, On the Edge, The Scandal of Scientology, From Slogans to Mantras, A Piece of Blue Sky, Anderson Report, Hollywood, Interrupted, L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?, Scientology: The Now Religion, The New Believers, The Mind Benders, Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality, Religion Inc., Dumbleton-Powles Report, Believe What You Like, Cults of Unreason, Foster Report, Until Nothing Remains. Excerpt: "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is an article, written in 1991 by U.S. investigative journalist Richard Behar, which is highly critical of Scientology. It was first published by Time magazine on May 6, 1991, as an eight-page cover story, and was later published in Reader's Digest in October 1991. Behar had previously published an article on Scientology in Forbes magazine. He stated that he was investigated by attorneys and private investigators affiliated with the Church of Scientology while researching the Time article, and that investigators contacted his friends and family as well. Behar's article covers topics including L. Ron Hubbard and the development of Scientology, its controversies over the years and history of litigation, conflict with psychiatry and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the suicide of Noah Lottick, its status as a religion, and its business dealings. After the article's publication, the Church of Scientology mounted a...