Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Making Your Own Reality: Conservapedia


Hilarious image from source, AlterNet

Wikipedia is a great site, that is hours of fun and will steal whole days from you if you're not careful. As anyone can edit the entries in this online encyclopedia, all information must be taken with slight skepticism. This is not to the site's detriment, however, because there would really be no reason to lie in most entries. The more political stuff is a bit dicey, but even there, entries are constantly re-checked and re-edited for accuracy.

Curiously, many conservatives seem to think that this openness leads to liberal tampering (even though it has been proven that FOX "News" is guilty of some of the tampering). So, they've created their own version, called "Conservapedia." And what, you might wonder, would be the most travelled entries on such a site? The answer might surprise you. . .then again, maybe not.

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1. Main Page [1,897,388]
2. Homosexuality [1,488,013]
3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis [516,193]
4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity [416,767]
5. Homosexuality and Parasites [387,438]

Read more of this list (all with the same theme), with commentary, at: AlterNet

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