Every year New Humanist magazine opens the polls to decide who will receive the prestigious Bad Faith Award. Each year, the person deemed by the voters to have made the most outstanding contribution to the cause of unreason. 2008's winner who, with 33% of the vote, was the hands-down victor in a field of nine contestants, was Alaska governor and vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin.

This year's 10 nominees include the Pope, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and publisher of an Islamic anti-evolution textbook, Harun Yahya. Voting is open to everybody.