Reception, Use in Other Works
The Los Angeles Times described Cooper's work as a "scathing" look at Scientology. The Charleston Gazette called the book: "a fascinating, 220-page paperback expose."
The book was used as a reference in Jon Atack's later work, A Piece of Blue Sky. Atack wrote: "I happened upon the hard-to-find Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper. Now I was fascinated, and started collecting everything I could get my eager hands on — magazine articles, newspaper clippings, government files, anything." Later, when A Piece of Blue Sky was dropped from Amazon.com listings in a controversial move, this was compared to court actions that initially limited distribution of The Scandal of Scientology.
J. Gordon Melton recommended reading both Cooper's book and the church's refutation, False Report Correction/The Scandal of Scientology by Paulette Cooper, for "insight" into the Scientology controversy in his 1978 work, The Encyclopedia of American Religions.
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