Conservapedia

[jeal2]

It's real - it was on the Today programme! And everyone knows everything on the Today programme is real.

You can listen again here. (Click on "listen again" and Wednesday. It was about 8:15.)

Or you can go to this one if you don't have real player, and fast-forward about 2hrs 15 mins.

Comments

[nybiara]

Sorry, first I have to admit that I haven't yet listened to the radio programme, though I will later today.

I think they may well have been hijacked by some satirists, even if the site itself was set up in all seriousness. If the article on Dinosaurs was not written to poke fun, then I'm really quite scared. "Trained scientists have reported seeing a live dinosaur." :P

And of course it has general vandals. Sadly it's been fixed now, but up until recently, the article on Spartan soldiers claimed that Xerxes' army included guys with grenades, armoured rhinos, orcs and Goat Man. (Because it's a Wiki, you can still see it in a previous version of the page). The brevity of their entry on France is also quite amusing. Apparently it doesn't even deserve complete sentences.

Must stop myself from ranting about their article on abortion.

[1st_law]

One would think that for countries and things they could start off by copying the wikipedia entries and edit from there. Or something.

Apparently George W. Bush beat John Kerry in 2004 by "millions of votes". In the states that's a few percent right?

[cartesiandaemon]

"Real"... it apparently *exists*. And *supposedly* is a genuine attempt to create a non-liberally-biased wikipedia. But I'm not sure it's real in the sense that it *is

[1st_law]

This response to the BBC interview is priceless.

[nybiara]

Wow.

"...the philosophy behind the shorter and more concise articles on Conservapedia [is] an approach to language which one of our British friend's very own countrymen, Mr. George Orwell, would have found familiar."

At least some of this site has to be satirical.

[nybiara]

zarkonnen has now pointed out to me that Aschlafly, the "Conservapedia Editor", is in fact the founder of Conservapedia. Pehaps it's not satire after all. :/