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HuffPo: Worse than Fox News?

By pharyngula on July 9, 2010.

At least when it comes to quackery, it is. An informal analysis of relevant stories on homeopathy reveals some sad results:

  • Fox news returned a total of 20 news stories; 5% were favorable towards homeopathy, 50% were unfavorable, and 45% were neutral.

  • NPR returned a total of 8 news stories; 12.5% were favorable towards homeopathy, 50% were unfavorable, and 37.5% were neutral.

  • The Huffington Post returned a total of 77 news stories; 68.83% were favorable toward homeopathy, 14.28% were unfavorable, and 16.88% were neutral.

Fox and NPR don't really have a horse in this race, so their percentages (based on some small numbers) probably just reflect a casual bias in the popular culture, unfortunate as it is. HuffPo looks like they're flogging quackery pretty hard, and almost certainly intentionally.

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