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The truth is not in them. HuffPo ran a long article condemning [[ChristWire]]'s piece "Is My Husband Gay?" as a serious work. When they were busted having fallen for a satire, they quietly changed the article without notice ... then tried complaining to the Atlantic Wire for misquoting them.<ref>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Satirical-Christian-Site-Hoodwinks-the-Huffington-Post-4766/</ref> (The Atlantic refused to budge.)
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The truth is not in them. HuffPo ran a long article condemning [[ChristWire]]'s piece "Is My Husband Gay?" as [[Poe's Law|a serious work]]. When they were busted having fallen for a satire, they quietly changed the article without notice ... then tried complaining to the Atlantic Wire for misquoting them.<ref>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Satirical-Christian-Site-Hoodwinks-the-Huffington-Post-4766/</ref> (The Atlantic refused to budge.)
  
 
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The Huffington Post (named after its founder, Arianna Huffington, a left-wing activist and socialist socialite) is a large online "newspaper" and blog site, and a good example of moonbattery[1] in action.

The Huffington Post was essentially a left-wing counter to sites such as the Drudge Report, although ironically, both Huffington Post and the Drudge Report had much of their techie work done by the same person, Andrew Breitbart, who has since launched his own news aggregator site.

The HuffPo has been named the "Most Powerful Blog" by The Observer [2] and is also the most popular blog on the web [3].

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I don't know what you're talking about

The truth is not in them. HuffPo ran a long article condemning ChristWire's piece "Is My Husband Gay?" as a serious work. When they were busted having fallen for a satire, they quietly changed the article without notice ... then tried complaining to the Atlantic Wire for misquoting them.[4] (The Atlantic refused to budge.)

Woo

HuffPo suffers the unfortunately common media delusion that science works like politics. Due to this, it is known for shamelessly pushing pseudoscience and woo (Deepak Chopra, Discovery Institute, MMR scare), and has been caught deliberately lying about doing so.[5]

The site has pushed antivaccine woo in the recent past.[6] It was widely critiqued by science bloggers for this stance, with PZ Myers encouraging a boycott.[7] It was also criticized by Bad Astronomy, who described it as "still almost all alt-med, all the time".[8]

Upon its founding, the Post was quickly joined by antivaccination activists.[9] David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine described 2009 as the year when "rank quackery emerged in the Huffington Post."

Other winners who have written for the site include:

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Footnotes

  1. Meant here in the "promotes antiscientific woo" sense, not "not a wingnut" sense
  2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs
  3. http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/
  4. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Satirical-Christian-Site-Hoodwinks-the-Huffington-Post-4766/
  5. Smoking gun.
  6. "Swine Flu: What To Do?"
  7. Die Huffpo Die
  8. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/28/huffpo-still-pushing-antivax-nonsense/
  9. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=473
  10. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-arthur-ray/conscious-capitalism-taki_b_193743.html
  11. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md
  12. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-caldicott/the-election_b_775116.html
  13. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/the-human-costs-of-nuclea_b_533516.html
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