The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post (sometimes abbreviated Huff Post or HuffPo) is an online news aggregator and blog founded by Arianna Huffington, former AOL executive Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart, and Jonah Peretti, featuring columnists. wiki
Right from the beginning of publishing the HuffPo posted articles from anti-vaccine “luminaries” like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (whose anti-vaccine activism I have discussed before) and more recently by Deirdre Imus, the driving force ramping up the antivaccinationist mercury militia proclivities of her husband, aging shock jock Don Imus. (Indeed, if Jenny McCarthy didn’t exist, Deirdre Imus would get my vote for the antvaccine zealot who routinely says the most astoundingly ignorant things about science.) Although we don’t hear much from Grilo or Gordon anymore, other than an occasional specious analogy between tobacco companies and the pro-vaccine stance of the CDC and AAP or nonsense about Tamiflu, unfortunately we do hear from Kirby, Imus, and Kennedy on a fairly regular basis, all on The Huffington Post, with one of the few voices of reason when it comes to vaccines being Arthur Allen, author of Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver. Unfortunately, Allen has not posted to HuffPo in a long time. Given this history, it’s not for naught that on occasion I’ve referred to The Huffington Post “Arianna’s Home for Happy Antivaccinationists” and noted that it’s been seriously questioned whether it could ever do a real science section..." [1]
Criticism
- Lauren Collins, "The Oracle: The Many Lives of Arianna Huffington", The New Yorker, October 13, 2008.
- David Gorski, "The Huffington Post‘s War on Medical Science: A Brief History", Sciencebasedmedicine, May 4, 2009.
Resources and articles
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- Terry McAuliffe
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- Dana Ullman
- Zoe Helene
- Betsy L. Morgan - former CEO
- Francesca Martinez
- Transformational Leadership Council
- Sandy Ingerman
- Randall Amster
- David Kirby (HuffPo)
- Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
Columnists
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- Susan Kaiser Greenland
- Jonathan Talat Phillips
- Judith Orloff
- Susan Smalley
- Michael Neill
- Doc Childre
- Prince of Wales [2]
- Ralph Snyderman
- Jeffrey M. Smith
- John Weeks
- David R. Hamilton
- Denise M. Wilbanks
- Alejandro Rojas
