R. Joseph Hoffman sharply critical of Ronald Lindsay and Center For Inquiry leadership

Let me be the first to call for Mr Lindsay’s resignation.

In little more than two years, he has driven the organization deeply into debt, reduced both the prestige and intellectual capital of a once-serious contender to be the best humanist and secularist organization in the world, tried to use the CFI “pulpit” for his own narrow range of interests, basically First Amendment issues–and at some point in the near future will probably sell the whole kit and caboodle to a more stable organization, like Americans United. He will then wash his hands of the whole matter having mergered what he could not accomplish.

He is abetted in this by a board that wants the organization to heal itself, an interesting attitude from people who don’t believe in the paranormal, and co-workers who would have trouble finding executive positions at a sardine factory.

Huh. Apparently there's a lot more going on behind the scenes than we know. If what Hoffman says is true, I fear for the future of CFI. Personally, I'm withholding judgment until I have all the facts. Being an outsider though, I suspect I never will.