Knowledge is power!

[Tev]

So a few days ago I got linked to Conservapedia. I remember the site coming up in conversation here before and I’d like to have a fun little chat about it again. I spent about a whole day in the place observing the conservative spin on even the most mundane of topics and found some very interesting things.

The Conservapedia definition of a Libral is….well it definitely sets the tone for many of the rest of the entries in this place. These people seem to stand to the right of Rush.

My personal favorite thing to come of this site is the Lenski Affair. It seems one of the site’s contributors took offence to Dr Lenski’s 20 year evolution experiment and tried to call the science into question without understanding the science itself. The email exchange between them has been touted as one of the greatest scientific smack downs of the last decade or so.

One thing that did surprise me though is the very mature and humane treatment that was given of Dungeons and Dragons. For a site so steeped Right Wing craziness, they took great pains explaining that D&D was just a game and that nothing evil was taking place. Their only real concern was some of the early artwork was a little “adult oriented.”

Anyway, all that aside, I invite the rest of you to have a little fun as well. Poke around the place and see if you can find a topic or two, maybe at least one that you find totally off the wall crazy (you should see what they have to say about Feminists) and one that is more down to earth and respectful than you’d expect (this is really rather hard). Post ‘em up here so we can all have a good laugh or whatever.