New look & concept for Lethbridge Freethinkers

Lethbridge Freethinkers Small LogoIt has now been a year since the inception of the Lethbridge Freethinkers group and we feel it is time to evolve. We have learned many lessons about the Lethbridge local community towards skepticism and the participation of the community in Lethbridge Freethinkers group. From these lessons we have decided to more focus on a online group that will encourage discussion from the community and more participation of local skeptics and freethinkers.

Lethbridge Freethinkers Large LogoThe online forum will now be discontinued and replaced with discussion section in the comment of the News and Blogs posted on this site. We are hoping this will create a more dynamic website with weekly topics for participation.  We are also encouraging local skeptics to write their own articles that we will post.

A new section call activism will be setup on this site to encourage you to take action in our local community. This will include letter writing opportunities to our government officials about issues that we feel need to be be addressed to attending local events where we need a presence to defend science and fight the many scams in your community.

4 Responses to “New look & concept for Lethbridge Freethinkers”

Was anybody aware of the Lethbridge College offering courses in so-called “complementary” therapies? Psychic, touch-therapy, Reiki etc.

Check the “Mind.Body.Home” page at the College site.

Perhaps a few letters of concern to the College may be in order.

Love the the new look – thanks

dketcheson on November 13th, 2009 at 8:55 pm

Yes they also offer a great money making career in hypnotherapy. I have the advertisement that I will scan and upload, it is very entertaining.

I got an email from the president of the Lethbridge College last year about the sponsorship of the Alternative Health Care trade show put on at the College. Her response was disappointing at best:

Thank you for your feedback. . . we are always interested in hearing from our community and particularly from our alums.

Our job in post-secondary is to promote critical thinking. . . clearly something you very much support as indicated by your affiliation with Freethinkers.

We hope that our students will be able to distinguish between what is science and what is not. . . as I’m sure you know, there are many alternative medicine options that warrant further exploration and investigation. We want our students to see what’s out there and be able to formulate measured opinions. They need to decide for themselves what is fallacy and what is not.

I hope this helps. . .

Cheers!

T.

Dr. Tracy Edwards
President and CEO
Lethbridge College

I responded with asking her about sponsoring a Intelligent Design trade show or a moon landing conspiracy lecture so student could decide for themselves on those issues also however I did no receive a response.

James on November 18th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Nice new look. Just wondering though, will the new site have a place where we can organize meetups?

Cheers.

feralfox on November 20th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

The new look and design are excellent. I look forward to some interesting and useful local issues in the Activism section.

- Rob

robsutherland on November 29th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

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