Davis thought I was making too much out of the issue of Suppressive Persons in the piece. “Do you know how many people, grand total, there are in the world who have been declared Suppressive?” he asked rhetorically. “A couple of thousand over the years. At most.” He said that in fact many had been restored to good standing. “Yet again, you’re falling into the trap of defining our religion by the people who’ve left.” Hubbard had said that only 2.5 percent of the human population were Suppressive, but one of the problems I faced in writing about Scientology, especially its early days, is that
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