Waaay back on May 17th, the LA Times ran an op-ed called “Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining” by someone named Charlotte Allen, described as “the author of ‘The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus’ and a contributing editor to the Minding the Campus website of the Manhattan Institute.” In short, Ms. Allen’s essay was just a big pile of crap; fact-challenged, illogical, and filled with ad hominems. A few days later, the Times ran a scathing rebuttal by PZ Myers called “Why is Charlotte Allen so mad at atheists?”
Posts Tagged ‘huffington post’
Better late than never
Monday, August 10th, 2009
HuffPo spews CAM-poo
Friday, July 31st, 2009I don’t read the Huffington Post for tips on health and fitness, but I do remember a couple of months ago being taken aback that one of their health writers recommended colonics as a preventative for swine flu.
Turns out this wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a trend at HuffPo to publish articles by “experts” that promote Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (”CAM,” or as I like to call it, “Not Medicine”), or sometimes even flat-out bad health advice.
Robert Wright takes on the “New Atheists” (including me!), Part Deux
Monday, July 20th, 2009As I reported last week, Robert Wright (The Evolution of God), whom we interviewed in episode #58 of the podcast, published an essay at Huffington Post titled “Why the ‘New Atheists’ are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy.” I posted a critique of this essay in which, among other things, I take Wright to task for asserting that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was not originally a religious conflict. (I do, to be clear, agree with Wright that the problem is not solely and exclusively religious, but rather an unholy–I use that term advisedly–combination of religion, culture and politics.)
HuffPo covers AAI 2009!
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009We like to rag on Huffington Post over their fetish for complementary and alternative medicine, but let’s give credit where credit’s due. HuffPo’s Landon Ross was at the recent Atheist Alliance International convention in Burbank, CA. He provides a good summary of the event, and offers some thoughts of his own on the plight of nonbelievers in 21st century America. Check out Ross’s report “The God Crisis.”
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