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Does Daesh really not have wikipedia? This story strikes me as being bullshitty seeing as this article exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury https

Does Daesh really not have wikipedia? This story strikes me as being bullshitty seeing as this article exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury

czinck 11y ago
You believe that Western propaganda? Of course the US wants to discredit red mercury, they're afraid of its true power.
nkrisc 11y ago
They'll believe whatever they want to believe. In fact, they already believe lots of mythical nonsense, what's one more unverifiable belief?
jsnell 11y ago
If you search the article for "Wikipedia", you'll find an exchange that addresses exactly this.
draw_down 11y ago
You think members of a fundamentalist terrorist organization can be persuaded by Wikipedia?
- mfoy_ 11y ago
  Wikipedia is just Western propaganda! /s
davidw 11y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11419428/Watch-Saudi-cleric-tells-students-Earth-does-not-rotate.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar... - if everything you 'know' revolves around half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, I suppose sorting it all out gets kind of confusing.
cozzyd 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution this article exists too. I wonder what https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/زئبق_أحمر https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/زئبق_أحمر says
- the_af 11y ago
  Google translate helps see it says mostly the same as the English-language article, albeit with less detail. The Google-translated Arabic language version of the Evolution article also seems reasonable (though I didn't read it in detail, so it may contain errors or oversimplifications). I wonder where do most Arabic language wiki editors come from.
- omginternets 11y ago
  This is a good point -- I'd forgotten that wikipedia articles aren't translated into every language.

Does Daesh really not have wikipedia? This story strikes me as being bullshitty seeing as this article exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury

czinck 11y ago

You believe that Western propaganda? Of course the US wants to discredit red mercury, they're afraid of its true power.

nkrisc 11y ago

They'll believe whatever they want to believe. In fact, they already believe lots of mythical nonsense, what's one more unverifiable belief?

jsnell 11y ago

If you search the article for "Wikipedia", you'll find an exchange that addresses exactly this.

draw_down 11y ago

You think members of a fundamentalist terrorist organization can be persuaded by Wikipedia?

mfoy_ 11y ago
Wikipedia is just Western propaganda! /s

davidw 11y ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11419428/Watch-Saudi-cleric-tells-students-Earth-does-not-rotate.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar... - if everything you 'know' revolves around half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, I suppose sorting it all out gets kind of confusing.

cozzyd 11y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution this article exists too. I wonder what https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/زئبق_أحمر https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/زئبق_أحمر says

the_af 11y ago
Google translate helps see it says mostly the same as the English-language article, albeit with less detail. The Google-translated Arabic language version of the Evolution article also seems reasonable (though I didn't read it in detail, so it may contain errors or oversimplifications). I wonder where do most Arabic language wiki editors come from.
omginternets 11y ago
This is a good point -- I'd forgotten that wikipedia articles aren't translated into every language.