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Scientology unsuccessfully sued ''Time'' magazine over the revelatory story.<ref>Branch, Rick (1997). [http://www.watchman.org/articles/scientology/scientology_a-history-of-terror-and-abuse "Scientology: A history of terror and abuse"]. ''The Watchman Expositor'', vol. 14, no. 5.  Republished at Watchman Fellowship website.</ref>   

Scientology unsuccessfully sued ''Time'' magazine over the revelatory story.<ref>Branch, Rick (1997). [http://www.watchman.org/articles/scientology/scientology_a-history-of-terror-and-abuse "Scientology: A history of terror and abuse"]. ''The Watchman Expositor'', vol. 14, no. 5.  Republished at Watchman Fellowship website.</ref>   

Numerous other [[author]]s and publications have been additional targets of Scientology retaliation.<ref>[http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/index.html Lermanet.com: Exposing the Con website/The News Archives.]</ref> In 1995, ''The American Jurist'' magazine published "Dangerous science: The Church of Scientology's holy war against critics", which notes, <blockquote>

Numerous other [[author]]s and publications have been additional targets of Scientology retaliation.<ref>[http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/index.html "The News Archive"]. Lermanet.com: Exposing the Con website/The News Archives.</ref> In 1995, ''The American Jurist'' magazine published "Dangerous science: The Church of Scientology's holy war against critics", which notes, <blockquote>

It is typical of the Church of Scientology to use lawsuits—very many of which are dismissed as frivolous—to intimidate, harass and quell its critics and defectors into silence. This scheme is even written into the church's doctrine.<ref>Ascalon, Eric J. (November 1995). [http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/amjurist1195.html "Dangerous science: The Church of Scientology's holy war against critics"]. ''The American Jurist'', vol. 9, no. 2.  Republished at Lermanet.com: Exposing the Con website/The News Archives.</ref> </blockquote>  

It is typical of the Church of Scientology to use lawsuits—very many of which are dismissed as frivolous—to intimidate, harass and quell its critics and defectors into silence. This scheme is even written into the church's doctrine.<ref>Ascalon, Eric J. (November 1995). [http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/amjurist1195.html "Dangerous science: The Church of Scientology's holy war against critics"]. ''The American Jurist'', vol. 9, no. 2.  Republished at Lermanet.com: Exposing the Con website/The News Archives.</ref> </blockquote>