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Like his fellow [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]], Harris has raised the ire of [[feminism|feminists]]. For example, on October 3, 2014, ''Salon'' magazine published an online article entitled, ''Atheism’s shocking woman problem: What’s behind the misogyny of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris?''<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2014/10/03/new_atheisms_troubling_misogyny_the_pompous_sexism_of_richard_dawkins_and_sam_harris_partner/ Atheism’s shocking woman problem: What’s behind the misogyny of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris?] by Amanda Marcotte, ''Salon'' magazine, October 3, 2014</ref> On September 20 2014, the feminist blogger Libby Anne wrote an article entitled ''Is Sam Harris Sexist?''<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2014/09/is-sam-harris-sexist.html Is Sam Harris Sexist?] by Libby Anne at the blog ''Love, Joy, Feminism'', September 20, 2014</ref> Atheist Sam Fincke wrote a piece entitled ''On Sam Harris’s Reply to Feminist Critics''.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2014/09/on-sam-harriss-reply-to-feminist-critics/ On Sam Harris’s Reply to Feminist Critics] by Daniel Fincke, September 16, 2014</ref>
Like his fellow [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]], Harris has raised the ire of [[feminism|feminists]]. For example, on October 3, 2014, ''Salon'' magazine published an online article entitled, ''Atheism’s shocking woman problem: What’s behind the misogyny of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris?''<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2014/10/03/new_atheisms_troubling_misogyny_the_pompous_sexism_of_richard_dawkins_and_sam_harris_partner/ Atheism’s shocking woman problem: What’s behind the misogyny of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris?] by Amanda Marcotte, ''Salon'' magazine, October 3, 2014</ref> On September 20 2014, the feminist blogger Libby Anne wrote an article entitled ''Is Sam Harris Sexist?''<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2014/09/is-sam-harris-sexist.html Is Sam Harris Sexist?] by Libby Anne at the blog ''Love, Joy, Feminism'', September 20, 2014</ref> Atheist Sam Fincke wrote a piece entitled ''On Sam Harris’s Reply to Feminist Critics''.<ref>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2014/09/on-sam-harriss-reply-to-feminist-critics/ On Sam Harris’s Reply to Feminist Critics] by Daniel Fincke, September 16, 2014</ref>
== Project Reason ==
''See also:'' [[Project Reason]]
An article published by an advocate of the [[Question evolution! campaign]] entitled ''Sam Harris, Project Reason failed'' quotes Sam Harris's [[Project Reason]] website thusly in terms of a description and aims of the project:
{{cquote|Project Reason is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. The foundation draws on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers in a wide range of disciplines to encourage critical thinking and erode the influence of dogmatism, superstition, and bigotry in our world.
One immediate need is to build an archive of the best secular resources on the Internet. Registered users can submit their favorite articles, videos, interviews, etc."<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/sam-harris-project-reason-failed.html Sam Harris, Project Reason failed!]</ref>}}
In addition, the article [http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/sam-harris-project-reason-failed.html''Sam Harris, Project Reason failed''] offers this web traffic graph from the web traffic tracking company Alexa:
[[File:Project Reason 6-26-2012 alexa.png|thumbnail|600px|center|An Alexa web traffic tracking graph for Project Reason taken from the article ''Sam Harris, Project Reason failed''<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/sam-harris-project-reason-failed.html Sam Harris, Project Reason failed!]</ref>]]
An updated Alexa web traffic tracking graph on January 31, 2014:
[[File:Project reason 1-31-2013.png|thumbnail|center|600px|A January 31, 2014 Alexa web traffic tracking graph for the website Project Reason]]
Also, the article ''Sam Harris, Project Reason failed'' adds:
{{cquote|...it is extremely hard to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. No doubt the "best" secular material on the internet is extremely poor in quality. In addition, material which promotes atheism is very much like evolutionary pseudoscience material in that it is extremely dull, stale and boring. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been an atheism revival!
See: [http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-public-tiring-of-hearing.html How stale and boring is evolutionary indoctrination? Is the public fooled or are they suspicious? What is the trend?]
'''Questions for Sam Harris and his anemic fan base'''
Sam, what happened? By the way, what are your thoughts about [http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/globally-worldviews-of-atheism-and-non.html global atheism shrinking]? I do hope you know that this is expected to affect Western World atheism.
The Birbeck, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann declared to a secular audience in a lecture titled [http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Shall the religious inherit the earth]: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/06/sam-harris-project-reason-failed.html Sam Harris, Project Reason failed!]</ref>}}
According to website traffic tracking company Alexa, as of July 3, 2015, Project Reason is the 774,804 most popular website on the internet and it recently dropped 48,642 places in terms of its ranking.<ref>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.project-reason.org Project Reason - Alexa ranking]</ref>
== Sam Harris and the decline of global atheism ==
== Sam Harris and the decline of global atheism ==