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Here's a small sample size: http://www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity http://www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity This guy free-associated the t
by jbooth 16y ago
Here's a small sample size:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity http://www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_relativity
This guy free-associated the theory of relativity with "moral relativism" (ideological bingo word!) and apparently concluded that that means relativity is wrong. Article full of cites follows. If it's cited, must be true, right? He also liberally (heh!) re-uses the bogus arguments from below about how relativity research is funded by the government, therefore the researchers must be marxists, therefore they're wrong about relativity.
For further reading, I'd suggest polls on the public's view of creationism, age of the earth, evolution, global warming, etc by political party.
- potatolicious 16y agoI'm a liberal, but even I can see that conservapedia represents the overall conservative/Republican base about as well as Mao represents all Chinese.
- jbooth 16y agoWell, fine, that one was mostly for yucks. But the pattern holds - check out the AEI on climate change, or the Texas Board of Education on evolution. These aren't fringe institutions.
- hugh3 16y agoAs far as I can tell, Conservapedia is written by two actual conservatives of the nutty variety and about fifty left-wing trolls.