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Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 3:44 PM UTC2010-07-07T15:44:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Huffington Post publishes anti-Darwin smears from creationist think tank

The "liberal" "news" site runs creationist propaganda and censors criticism of its decision

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

At the Huffington Post, popular liberal news aggregator, nipple slideshow source, and intern slave market, you can get away with writing pretty much any old nonsense you like. Especially if you’re famous, or a friend of Arianna Huffington. One thing you apparently can’t do, though, is criticize the Huffington Post itself for publishing nonsense.

I’ve long been a critic of HuffPo’s “Living” section, where fake doctors peddle snake oil cures and vaccine conspiracy theorists spread their poisonous misinformation. Those who read the Huffington Post solely for its (usually good) political content often don’t even realize that a couple verticals away is a den of quackery and pseudoscience.

The HuffPo has, they claim, a specific editorial policy against promoting “conspiracy theories.” It is selectively enforced.

But publishing the new agey holistic naturopath crystal-healing Beverly Hills quack-to-the-stars bullshit of Arianna’s good friend’s nutritionist is one (stupid, potentially dangerous) thing. Giving a platform to the anti-science creationist dingbats at The Discovery Institute is a step in a darker direction.

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Alex Pareene

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Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 10:30 PM UTC2011-08-25T22:30:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medical expertise report

Is the Huffington Post done giving a platform to those who popularize a fictitious autism link?

Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medical expertise report

Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who knows what she’s talking about despite not being a celebrity.

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Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 4:19 AM UTC2011-07-19T04:19:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Arianna Huffington v. Frederick Douglass

The president's history lesson on political compromise shows the degraded state of American politics and the left

Arianna Huffington v. Frederick Douglass

The White House released video of a formerly private meeting President Obama held with a group of college students in Boston last March, where he discussed the importance of political compromise. Some of the students were active in college Democrats and Republicans groups, others were independents, and the talk is widely being seen as emblematic of the president’s conciliating world view – and how he disappoints the unrealistic left, and is proud to do so. I wouldn’t pay much attention to it if it was just a normal four-minute daily news item, which flow on all day, every day. But since the White House seems to think it’s politically useful, it’s worth taking seriously.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:26 PM UTC2011-05-25T18:26:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Now that’s how you give a graduation speech

Alaine Caudle leaves high school with something to remember her by

You wish high school had been as cool as this.

You wish high school had been as cool as this.

 Alaine Caudle of Doniphan West High School knew that nobody remembers his or her high school valedictorian (or their college one, for that matter), so she decided to make her performance memorable. And, boy, did she ever.

You know, one these videos is worth a thousand anti-bullying PSAs because for once, the smartest kid in the room is also the coolest. And also the bravest; can you imagine the kind of chutzpah it would take to be 18 and just own it like Alaine does?

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:18 PM UTC2011-05-17T21:18:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

“Successful Alcoholics” is painfully funny

Straight from the festival circuit: A tragicomedy of drinking your life away

T.J. Miller and Lizzy Caplan are successful alcoholics

T.J. Miller and Lizzy Caplan are successful alcoholics

Besides taking a punch or getting stitches by an old-timey doctor in the West, there are not many situations in life where it helps to be incredibly wasted. If being drunk made us smarter or more successful, then our culture’s only problem with alcoholism would be that it gave people too much of a competitive advantage in the world.

This tragicomic premise is what makes the Sundance short “Successful Alcoholics” so uncomfortably funny. Lizzy Caplan (“Party Down,” “Cloverfield” — and as I personally think of her — “The better Zooey Deschanel”) and T.J. Miller (also “Cloverfield”) play a couple whose severe drinking problem not only doesn’t affect their jobs … but actually helps them. They get out of traffic tickets, go to dinner parties topless, and somehow still hold down high-paying jobs.

“What a wonderful world,” you think? Not quite. “Successful Alcoholics” is now playing in its entirety over at the Huffington Post (through FunnyorDie, which has for some reason removed the video) and is worth every wincingly funny, sad moment.

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Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 7:20 PM UTC2011-04-19T19:20:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T

Huffington Post’s “Most Read” section remains a ridiculous farce

Today's top stories: racism, Obama, death, taxes, and what is that white stuff on Vanessa Hudgens' finger?

The very important matter of Vanessa Hudgens and some "stuff" in today's news.

The very important matter of Vanessa Hudgens and some "stuff" in today's news.

It is not news to anyone that Huffington Post balances out its critical political analysis with a bunch of celebrity slide shows about hot bikini bodies. Hey, something needs to bring in the traffic, and a lot of days Cameron Diaz making out with A-Rod is just going to get more clicks than a story on Obama and the deficit.

I also understand that PopEater is not Huffington Post, but rather an affiliated website also owned by AOL. These are all true things. And yet, I can’t help feeling like today’s sidebar is detracting from the website’s credibility somehow.

For those of you wondering about the “white stuff,” it turned out to be chocolate. And for those wondering who Vanessa Hudgens is, maybe you need to read more Huffington Post and/or watch “High School Musical.” 

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