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/* David Silverman's inaccurate reporting on the effectiveness of firebrand atheism */
''See also:'' [[Decline of militant atheism in the West]] and [[Atheism and public relations]]
[[File:David Silverman Reason Rally.jpg|thumbnail|rightleft|200px|[[David Silverman]] ]]
In 2015, in an article entitled ''The Case Against In-Your-Face Atheism'', the ''Daily Beast'' reported about David Silverman, the president of the American Atheists organization:
{{Cquote|Like any good marketer, Silverman says he has sales figures proving his approach is working. In a [http://youtu.be/oX9x_952Pt4 talk] he gave about firebrand atheism, he claimed that his data, based on an analysis of Google searches for the word “atheist” performed over the past several years, shows that his in-your-face approach is working.<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/04/the-case-against-in-your-face-atheism.html ''The Case Against In-Your-Face Atheism'']</ref>}}
