# What was the New Atheism?

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PZ Myers has an illuminating article about the birth and death of New Atheism. If you want an insiders view on what went down it is worth a read.

> **[The train wreck that was the New Atheism](https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/25/the-train-wreck-that-was-the-new-atheism/)**
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> The title of the article is What Was New Atheism?. The use of the past tense is noted. The label was coined in 2006 by Gary Wolf in Wired, and we spent the next decade sort of agreeing that there i…

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