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TexasTowelie

(111,296 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 05:45 PM Nov 2013

Conservapedia: The Search for the Truth Ends Here

You are surely aware of Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. While sometimes comically inaccurate (but rarely nowadays), Wikipedia is actually a fairly reliable resource for basic facts (How many touchdowns has Tom Brady thrown? Which years was Warren Harding president?). It is almost always one of the first few hits on your favorite search engine when looking up a basic fact. In short, it is useful.

But not everyone likes Wikipedia. Some conservatives, for example. So they formed "Conservapedia."

Tell me more, you say? "Conservapedia is a clean and concise resource for those seeking the truth. We do not allow liberal bias to deceive and distort here." Put another way: "We do not allow liberal censorship of conservative facts. Wikipedia editors who are far more liberal than the American public frequently censor factual information." Conservapedia does not give any actual examples of this.

Conservapedia was founded by Andrew Schlafly, son of famous conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly (that's a Wikipedia link to her bio so be on the look out for any bias) to root out the bias he was certain inhered in Wikipedia.

More at http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2013/11/conservapedia_the_search_for_t.php .

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Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
3. My youngest used to attempt to correct "facts" on this site and got herself banned a dozen times
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 06:29 PM
Nov 2013

Four or five years ago when she was in High School, my youngest got offended by this site and managed to get herself banned for correcting their "facts."

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
4. That doesn't even get into things like their denial of large swathes of physics.
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 06:37 PM
Nov 2013

Seriously. They think general and special relativity are liberal plots.

MotorCityMan

(1,203 posts)
7. Ok, need a good laugh, so checked it out....
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 06:56 PM
Nov 2013

First article I clicked on;

Liberal denial

Liberal denial is the tendency of liberals to conceal, deny or censor the truth for ideological reasons. The root cause of liberal denial is a determination to deny Jesus Christ, and ultimately the existence of God. A list of examples of liberal denial are the following:

I got to number 3 on the list;

3. Liberals continue to deny that George W. Bush defeated Al Gore for president in 2000 (e.g., Joe Biden denied it remarks on June 12, 2013).

That did it.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Thanks, Fantastic Anarchist, I needed that!

nyquil_man

(1,443 posts)
6. In the run-up to the NJ Senate special election earlier this year,
Tue Nov 19, 2013, 06:44 PM
Nov 2013

someone went onto the Wikipedia page for the 2008 NJ Senate election and vandalized it. Not only did they change the results to make it appear that the election was very nearly a tie, but they also went in and changed all of the polling figures to make the race appear close there as well.

This is what we're dealing with. They don't care about facts. They care only about perception.

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