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Centre For Inquiry website launched.

The cfi London website is now fully functional. Comments please...

Go here.

Many thanks to David McKeegan for doing an excellent job.

Use www.cfilondon.org or www.cfiuk.org. Do not use www.cfilondon.org.uk or www.cfiuk.org.uk as they take you to the US site which we are not now using.
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Neuroskeptic said…
Looks good - the event in January looks very interesting, if I have time I'll try and get down there.

You need more events though...
October 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Anonymous said…
if you put in the URL http://www.cfilondon.org.uk
it automatically goes to http://www.centerforinquiry.net/london.

I guess the main CFI site will be updated?
October 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Stephen Law said…
The main site will hopefully be updated but that's a discussion we're having with their web guy. Politics....

in the meantime use:

www.cfilondon.org or www.cfiuk.org

which are more elegant in any case.

best
Stephen
October 27, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Stephen Law said…
two more events to be publicized shortly.
October 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Jude said…
Are any events planned for outside London?
October 27, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Stephen Law said…
maybe. where you based?
October 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Jude said…
Leicester. Can do Nottingham, Birmingham etc
October 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Anonymous said…
hmmmm,
I see what you are aiming at, but
isn't focal point II (as currently written) more or less a direct description of "the naturalistic fallacy"?

Cassanders
In Cod we trust
October 27, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Anonymous said…
Perhaps CFI London could award an annual 'quack of the year' prize, like the one in the Netherlands, as reported by David Colquhoun yesterday: http://dcscience.net/?p=261 (the Meester Kackadorisprijs)
October 28, 2008 at 9:15 AM
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