Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
When the Tribeca Film Festival takes place a month from now, it’ll include a movie called Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe. It’s essentially an anti-vaccination propaganda film. The director of the 91-minute documentary is Andrew Wakefield, the researcher whose fraudulent paper (later retracted by The Lancet) led to the belief that vaccines cause autism. Read more
A couple of years ago, the Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered that anyone could put up a display in the State Capitol Building as long as the person filled out the proper paperwork. So to counter the Nativity Scenes around Christmas, they put up signs honoring gods from Game of Thrones. Last Easter, they honored the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And this year? They’re going with Jedis. Read more
There’s an argument made by many Christian apologists that one proof of the Bible’s truth is that there are passages in there that make the Bible and the story of Jesus look bad. Why would you include embarrassing details like that, when your critics could pick them apart, if they didn’t actually happen? Zach Weinersmith takes that thinking to its logical conclusion: Read more