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→Irony of new atheists willfully engaging in willful poor health practices
For more information please see: [[Atheism and obesity]] and [[Atheism and the fat acceptance movement]] and [[Atheism and health]]
For more information please see: [[Atheism and obesity]] and [[Atheism and the fat acceptance movement]] and [[Atheism and health]]
=== Irony of new atheists willfully engaging in willful poor health practices ===
== New Atheism leaders and unhealthy lifestyles ==
''See also:'' [[Atheist hypocrisy]]
''See also:'' [[New Atheism leaders and unhealthy lifestyles]]
A significant number of the founders of the [[New Atheism]] movement have engaged in unhealthy behaviors which have upon occasion caused them significant health problems (see: [[New Atheism leaders and unhealthy lifestyles]]).
Despite his esophageal cancer, when asked by interviewer Charlie Rose if in retrospect he would have engaged in heavy drinking and smoking knowing his present cancer condition, the late new atheist [[Christopher Hitchens]] said he think he would have done things the same.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/christopher-hitchens-desp_n_685021.html Christopher Hitchens: Despite Cancer, I'd Drink & Smoke Again]</ref>
According to the ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the new atheists "believe empirical science is the only (or at least the best) basis for genuine knowledge of the world, and they insist that a belief can be epistemically justified only if it is based on adequate evidence."<ref>[http://www.iep.utm.edu/n-atheis/ The New Atheists]</ref>
According to the ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the new atheists "believe empirical science is the only (or at least the best) basis for genuine knowledge of the world, and they insist that a belief can be epistemically justified only if it is based on adequate evidence."<ref>[http://www.iep.utm.edu/n-atheis/ The New Atheists]</ref>
Yet, new atheists willfully violated the best health practices of such disciplines of medical science, nutritional science, exercise science and psychology, despite this health practices being widely disseminated in the scientific literature and media.
Yet, new atheists willfully violated the best health practices of disciplines such as medical science, nutritional science, exercise science and psychology, despite this health practices being widely disseminated in the scientific literature and media.
=== Atheism, evolutionism and obesity ===
=== Atheism, evolutionism and obesity ===