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23 Sep 2010, 4:21 pm

Hi all, just heard about this wonderful site

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

I simply cannot believe the rubbish written in it, the writers of this thing have absolutely no idea of what evidence is, or what the scientific method is either. I find it frightening that people read this tripe and take it seriously! Are these people aware of just how ridiculous they are!

Particularly entertaining reads are the big bang theory, evolution and homosexuality.



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23 Sep 2010, 6:16 pm

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe%27s_Law



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23 Sep 2010, 6:30 pm

mattc wrote:
Hi all, just heard about this wonderful site

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

I simply cannot believe the rubbish written in it, the writers of this thing have absolutely no idea of what evidence is, or what the scientific method is either. I find it frightening that people read this tripe and take it seriously! Are these people aware of just how ridiculous they are!

Particularly entertaining reads are the big bang theory, evolution and homosexuality.


People have always read tripe and some have taken it seriously. Get used to it.

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23 Sep 2010, 6:52 pm

Some people don't want to read/hear the truth. :shrug:


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23 Sep 2010, 7:41 pm

Taupey wrote:
Some people don't want to read/hear the truth. :shrug:

Most. :(



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24 Sep 2010, 12:51 am

Unfortunately, the same masses of cretins and crackers who flock lemming like to the misinformation machine called Fox News I fear are probably relying on this conservapedia crap. :(

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24 Sep 2010, 1:00 am

Kinda my reaction to the whole conservative punk movement.

www.ConPunk.com


Think about it.

Conservative.
Punk.


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24 Sep 2010, 6:45 am

This sort of thing is really annoying because free speech means they're able to produce this rubbish, liberty gives the non-liberal the right and the tools to then attack it with. This is something I often think about because you can't take away free speech and liberty, and I agree with that totally, but how else can we deal with these scummy barrel scraping sections of society. These people, so hell bent on ruining everything our modern society is working towards, in their mission to drag us back to medieval ways of thinking and behaving.

thanks for the links by the way :thumleft:



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24 Sep 2010, 7:04 am

Hey mattic,

Thanks for the tip. I have bookmarked it so that I can read it at my leisure.



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29 Sep 2010, 10:23 pm

Asmodeus wrote:
Taupey wrote:
Some people don't want to read/hear the truth. :shrug:

Most. :(
Indeed.


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30 Sep 2010, 3:40 am

mattc wrote:
This sort of thing is really annoying because free speech means they're able to produce this rubbish, liberty gives the non-liberal the right and the tools to then attack it with. This is something I often think about because you can't take away free speech and liberty, and I agree with that totally, but how else can we deal with these scummy barrel scraping sections of society.

By educating people to be able to make up their own minds and think independently.



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30 Sep 2010, 3:58 am

It is for real, but not all conservatives believe everything that's listed on that site. For example, some conservatives aren't religious and some are fiscally moderate and union members. Some are okay with homosexuality and others don't like guns.


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01 Oct 2010, 9:02 am

"I simply cannot believe the rubbish written in it, the writers of this thing have absolutely no idea of what evidence is, or what the scientific method is either."

Spend 20 years in a mainline university, attending conferences and publishing [and/or perishing]. There is no place to hide from the unminded.



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01 Oct 2010, 11:17 am

Oh, a wikipedia for ret*ds. Thats cute.


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01 Oct 2010, 11:46 am

It sounds like a cross between Wikipedia and the Onion.

Excellent satire!


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17 Nov 2010, 9:55 pm

Its wiki what do you expect most of them are lazy college students with nothing better to do!


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