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IP: Skeptics in Hollywood
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:26:55 -0500
For Immediate Release Contact: James Underdown, Executive Director, Center for Inquiry-West 4773 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90027 (323) 666-9797 Non-Believers Move to Hollywood Dec. 15 Party To Celebrate New Presence in Media Capital Los Angeles, CA-The Center for Inquiry-West has landed at 4773 Hollywood Boulevard. This innovative new facility is not only an educational non-profit organization, it is a community center for secular humanists, skeptics, atheists, agnostics and other freethinkers. It is the only such facility in the western United States. Here to celebrate the move into Hollywood will be the editors of two international magazines devoted to rational inquiry. Kendrick Frazier, Editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and recent recipient of the 2001 In Praise of Reason Award will join Thomas Flynn, Editor of Free Inquiry magazine, to launch the Hollywood location at 8 p.m on December 15, 2001. Skeptical Inquirer magazine is published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), and is the world's leading publication devoted to examining paranormal and fringe-scientific claims. Free Inquiry magazine is published by the Council for Secular Humanism, a worldwide organization devoted to an ethical philosophy which is not predicated on belief in anything supernatural. The party is open to the public and will include words from both editors, food, drink and music. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Festivities start at 8 p.m. There is ample free parking behind the Center. ###30### The Center for Inquiry-West is a not-for-profit educational organization established "To promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor." CFI-West is located at 4773 Hollywood Blvd., and is the West Coast home of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, and for the Council for Secular Humanism, publisher of Free Inquiry magazine. Visit us at CFIWest.org, or e-mail James Underdown at JimU () cfiwest org.
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