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Rational Wiki: The Huffington Post

As you may as may not know, Rationalwiki is was created to attack Conservapedia. They are in no way conservative's friends, attacking religion, gun rights, conspiracy theorist's, pro lifers..

But I have to give them credit, in that they also don't subscribe to the theory "No enemy on the left". Per example, their take on the very liberal Huffpo:



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The Huffington Post (named after its founder, Arianna Huffington, a left-wing activist and socialist socialite), or "HuffPo,"[2] is a large online "newspaper" and blog site, and a good example of moonbattery in action, mixed with sideboobery[3] and some reasonable left-wing journalism. It was essentially a left-wing counter to sites such as the Drudge Report — although both Huffington and Drudge had much of their techie work done by the same person, Andrew Breitbart, who went on to launch his own awful news aggregator site.
Besides its relentless promotion of quackery and spiritualism, the site is known for blurring the lines between journalism and public relations. Its "Sponsor Generated Content" pages are very thinly veiled advertisements dressed up as news articles. To be fair, advertisements masquerading as news stories have begun appearing with increased regularity on sites across the political spectrum, as ad-blocking software becomes nearly ubiquitous among more profitable demographics, although HuffPost was certainly at the forefront of this underhanded practice. Another means of boosting profit for HuffPo is its heavy reliance on unpaid bloggers to generate content for the site.[4]
The HuffPo has been named the "Most Powerful Blog" by The Observer[5] and is also the most popular blog on the web.[6]
Contents
1 Arianna's political odyssey
2 I don't know what you're talking about
3 Woo
4 The Huffington Post Union of Bloggers
5 External links
6 References
Arianna's political odyssey[edit]
Arianna Huffington supported the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Party takeover of the U.S. Congress in 1994, and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole in 1996. She was married to Michael Huffington, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.
An advocate of campaign finance reform, her 2000 book How to Overthrow the Government caught her right in the middle of a swing from right to left. In the 2000 election, she at first supported John McCain in the Republican primaries, then Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in the general election. Shortly thereafter, she became active in efforts to lobby for energy efficient cars and alternative fuels. She filed as an independent candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election; shortly before the election, she dropped out and endorsed the Democratic Party candidate Cruz Bustamante. This point marked the effective end of her brief sojourn as a political independent, and since then she has been aligned with the Democrats and supported John Kerry and Barack Obama for president.
I don't know what you're talking about[edit]
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.[7] (The magazine refused to budge.)
Woo[edit]
See the main article on this topic: 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, and has been caught deliberately lying about doing so.[8]
Most infamously, it is known as a hotbed of vaccine denialism and alternative medicine.[9] Within weeks of its founding, the Post was quickly flooded by anti-vaccination activists, priming the pump for more woo to come. David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine described 2009 as the year when "rank quackery" emerged in the site, arguing that the tipping point was when alt-med crank Patricia Fitzgerald became the Weirdness Editor "Wellness Editor."[10] It was widely critiqued by science bloggers for this stance, with PZ Myers encouraging a boycott.[11] It was also criticized by Bad Astronomy, who described its science/medicine coverage as "almost all alt-med, all the time."[12]
Other winners who have written for the site include:
New Age guru Deepak Chopra, who — unfortunately — needs no introduction, wrote several articles for the site in its early years.
Self help guru and pseudo-"Native American" spirituality rip-off peddler James Arthur Ray.[13]
John Morton, current spiritual director of John-Roger's Movement for Inner Spiritual Awareness, a New Age group. (Arianna Huffington is herself a longtime follower of John-Roger's MISA.)
Alternative medicine woo-meister Andrew Weil.[14]
Thoroughly hysteric anti-nuclear advocate Helen Caldicott.[15]
Alec Baldwin with the pseudoscientific Tooth Fairy Project.[16]
Notorious homeopath and internet troll Dana Ullman.
Of late, however, reality-based writers and commenters have started pushing back against the woo-meisters,[17] with some of them taken to linking to RationalWiki's skeptical articles. Which is nice.
The Huffington Post Union of Bloggers[edit]
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Though not a stub by pure word count, this article lacks depth of content.

The domain www.hpub.org was formed in 2010 by bloggers "dissatisfied with the editorial policies of Arriana Huffington". The original domain was www.huffingtonpostunionofbloggers.com; however, after The Huffington Post was sold to AOL Time Warner they were sued[18] and lost control of the domain and reverted to www.hpub.org.
In 2011, the bloggers chose to sue Huffington Post, arguing they had a right to a portion of the money AOL paid because their contributions had helped build Huffington Post. The case was ultimately thrown out because "no one forced" the bloggers to repeatedly provide their work with no expectation of being paid, and said they got what they bargained for when their works were published.
The website itself has devolved into a bed of conspiracy blog posts including 9/11 Truthers, ISIS/Terrorist are fake Conspiracies, and various other issues that come from allowing anybody to write a blog on a website.


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I'm just shocked at some of the shit the Huff Po ends up publishing lol.


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I'm just shocked at some of the shit the Huff Po ends up publishing lol.

doubt that given you're regularly peddling crap from sources like the blaze

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