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.
Kristin Cavallari, a celebrity who’s basically famous for being famous, writes in her new book Balancing in Heels that she fed her newborn baby a kind of homemade formula that included goat’s milk. It’s the latest in a string of awful decisions that includes not vaccinating her children because she fears they’ll become autistic (a link that’s never ever ever been found). Read more
An organization of pediatricians has issued a damning report against the very notion of gender identity, saying that letting children “pick their gender amounts to child abuse.” The American College of Pediatricians issued a strong recommendation based on their report: They are urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that would condition children to accept chemical and surgical distortions allowing people to impersonate the opposite sex. The Religious Right has been saying this for years, and now they have a professional organization backing them up. Unbelievable, isn’t it? Yes it is. Literally. Because the American College of Pediatricians isn’t a legitimate organization dedicated to science. It’s a conservative group consisting of a couple hundred members (tops) that requires prospective members to accept a certain set of ideologies. Read more