User:Feredir28/Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a book by deranged conservative columnist Ann Coulter, published in 2006. The book is focuses are American liberalism, slandering it with notions such as "anti-science," "faith-based," and replaces the God of the Bible with myths and theories.  This article will provide a side-by-side analysis of this book. While this book does contain many political points, it is laced with misinformation regarding scientific facts and observable reality. While RationalWiki does keep a close eye on Conservapedia, RW will focus more on fact checking for this book.

Accusations of plagiarism and distortions
John Barrie, creator of iParadigms, LLC's plagiarism-detection software, found in the book three instances of what he claims to be plagiarism. The Rawstory website claims that she used text taken from the Illinois Right to Life website, making only slight changes for the book. The TPM Muckracker website provided a "complete" list of examples of alleged plagiarism discovered so far in all of Coulter's works.

On August 7, 2006, Media Matters for America claimed that Coulter misrepresented and distorted the statements of her sources, omitted information in those sources that refuted the claims in her book, misrepresented news coverage to allege bias, relied upon outdated and unreliable sources, and invented "facts."