# Your opinions on the Huffington Post?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-on-the-huffington-post/646768>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 10, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-on-the-huffington-post/646768 "2013-01-10T17:20:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-on-the-huffington-post/646768/21 "2013-01-11T18:13:10Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> The problem with Fox News is not that they are opinionated, but that they pervert the news and push their opinions as fact. HuffPo does not do this.

HuffPo runs a lot of ridiculous health pieces in which antivaccination garbage and other woo is presented as fact. As [this article](http://www.salon.com/2009/07/30/huffington_post/) notes, one rank example was a blog post by an idiot promoting “deep cleansing enemas” to prevent swine flu.

Another regular contributor to HuffPo has been [Dana Ullman](http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/04/21/the-return-of-dana-ullman-2010/), homeopath and wooist extraordinaire.

Not all of HuffPo’s science and medicine articles are bad, but a disturbingly high proportion are hazardous to your health.

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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinions-on-the-huffington-post/646768/22 "2013-01-11T19:34:21Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> That’s ridiculous. The problem with Fox News is not that they are opinionated, but that they pervert the news and push their opinions as fact. HuffPo does not do this.

Yes they do, and that’s what ultimately led me to give up on them. I don’t mind far left slants because I happen to have a far left slant, but they play fast and loose with the truth. I can’t be bothered to go sleuthing for examples right now, but I’ve more than once read things posted on there that have been objectively untrue, or omit relevant information which makes the article misleading. They don’t source their information at all, and will freely post anything some guy wrote up on his liberal blog. It’s not a reliable source for news from an unabashedly left leaning source. It’s just a stream of static from the left, the truthfulness of which is entirely irrelevant.

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