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.
Last week, at Seitz Elementary School in Kansas, students were told they could leave class early in order to pick up a copy of the Bible. The Gideons had left a bunch of copies on tables in the hallway. Yesterday, the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center sent a long letter to District officials demanding they end this annual distribution: Read more
Earlier this year, we learned that Makayla Sault, an 11-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, had died. Her disease was treatable with two years of tough chemotherapy and had a nearly 90% survival rate… but Makayla wanted to stop with the chemo and her Ojibwe/First Nations parents were more than happy to oblige, seeking out useless faith-based treatments instead. Part of the problem was the Makayla was being treated by a “doctor” in Florida, Brian Clement, who was practicing without a license and using treatments with no chance of success. Why bring him up now? Because he’s back in Canada and up to his old tricks again: Read more
