The Huffington Post (HuffPo) opened online in May, 2005, styling itself "The Internet Newspaper: News Blogs Video Community". Politically, HuffPo has a liberal tilt.
However, the HuffPo's science and "wellness" coverage has, well, a loony tilt.
The "wellness" editor is one Patricia Fitzgerald, who believes that "cleansing" is the road to health. Fitzgerald's "wellness" qualifications are, well, questionable.
Lately, there's been a movement in the science/medical blogosphere reacting to the, well, looniness of the Huffington Post's science/medicine coverage:
There is a pattern of the Huffington Post publishing medical opinion presented as fact, written by persons without any medical or scientific training.
- May 2, 2009: HuffPo published Kim Evans' defensive and deceptive post Health Care: Scientific or Rational?
- May 1, HuffPo published Lisa Sharkey's What Most Doctors Won't Tell You About Preparing for the Swine Flu Sharkey is Senior Vice President and Director of Creative Development for HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide.
- May 1, 2009, HuffPo published Kim Evans' Antibiotics Cause Cancer?
- April 27, 2009: HuffPo published Marianne Williamson's wishful-thinking paen: Pray Away Swine Flu
- April 23, 2009, HuffPo published Kim Evans' dangerous advice: Reversing Diabetes Naturally
- April 22, 2009, HuffPo published actor Jim Carrey's mendacious and manipulative screed on vaccination and autism, The Judgment on Vaccines Is In???
- April 23, 2009 HuffPo published Patricia Fitzgerald's infomercial for Jenny McCarthy and Jerry Kartzinel's new book in Jenny McCarthy's Autism Crusade: Healing, Hope... And Controversy
- April 21, 2009, HuffPo published Margaret Ruth's Intuitive Scanning for Health: An Interview with Medical Intuitives
- February 24, 2009, HuffPo published David Kirby and R.F. Kennedy, jr.'s particularly idiotic response to the Vaccine Court rulings: Vaccine Court: Autism Debate Continues
- February 11, 2009, HuffPo published Deirdre Imus's On Vaccinations: Consider the Source and Follow the Money an ad-hominem attack on Paul Offit, MD
- January 27, 2009: HuffPo published Autism, Vaccines and the CDC: The Wrong Side of History
- January 14, 2009: HuffPo published Doctors, Vaccine Dissent and The God Complex
- April X, 2009: HuffPo published Deirdre Imus's CDC Under Siege insisting that CDC is "covering up" the linkage between vaccination and autism.
- October 30, 2008: HuffPo published David Kirby's Mercury Other Toxins May Cause Autism
- June 2, 2008: HuffPo published Deirdre Imus's A Timely Truth Untold Again -- another chapter in Mrs. Imus's fact-free insistence that autism is caused by vaccination.
- January 2008: HuffPo published Deirdre Imus's Spins of Omission (insisting that autism is TOO mercury poisoning)
- September 26, 2007 HuffPo published David Kirby's CDC: Mercury in Vaccines Damaged Your Child. Or Not.
- November 19, 2007: HuffPo published Deirdre Imus's Overmedicated and Overvaccinated
- December 21, 2007: HuffPo published Deirdre Imus's Missing the Mercury Threat: An appeal to New Jersey's Governor
The Huffington Post also publishes anti-public-health advocates:
Paul Offit's official website
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