Conservapedia: E=mc2 Is A Liberal Conspiracy

[cynatnite]

To many conservatives, almost everything is a secret liberal plot: from fluoride in the water to medicare reimbursements for end-of-life planning with your doctor to efforts to teach evolution in schools. But Conservapedia founder and Eagle Forum University instructor Andy Schlafly -- Phyllis Schlafly's son -- has found one more liberal plot: the theory of relativity.

If you're behind on your physics, the Theory of Relativity was Albert Einstein's formulation in the early 20th century that gave rise to the famous theorum that E=mc2, otherwise stated as energy is equal to mass times the square of the speed of light. Why does Andy Schlafly hate the theory of relativity? We're pretty sure it's because he's decided it doesn't square with the Bible.

In the entry, "Counterexamples to Relativity," the authors (including Schlafly) write:

The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/conservapedia_founder_takes_on_the_notorious_liber.php?ref=fpa

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Conservapedia has been Poe'd to within an inch of its life.

To everyone's (except the assholes) great amusement. :rofl:

[depakid]

19. Is it real, or a parody? Sometimes even the posters themselves don't know for sure...

[wolfgirl]

2. Now I understand when someone remarks -

"The stupid - It burns!"

:wtf: :wow:

[The_Commonist]

3. I love Conservapedia!

I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia doing casual research, just because I want to know everything.
When I get bored with that, sometimes I'll go over to Conservapedia.
That place is a laugh a minute!
It's particularly entertaining to read the same entry on both sites.
Wikipedia will have pages of info and many sources listed, while Conservapedia will have 3 lines and no sources.

OK... here's a random example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_cross_bun

http://conservapedia.com/Hot_cross_buns

[BolivarianHero]

12. They're at the forefront of scholarship...

They use such as innovative research methods as taking the King James Bible, interpreting it without using any authoritative sources, and retranslating it to English without consideration for millennia of Bible scholarship or of the original sources on which credible translations of the Bible are based.

[tridim]

4. I can prove E=MC2 with one smiley

:nuke:

[baldguy]

5. So's 2+2=4. What's the big deal?

[TygrBright]

6. Don't you know that mathematical determinism is a liberal secularist plot to rot children's minds?

To the devout Christian Conservative, two plus two can equal WHATEVER GOD WANTS IT TO EQUAL. Or whatever Wall Street wants it to equal.

Any simplistic, liberal assumptions that the integer "2", added by simple mathematical addition to the integer "2," will inevitably produce the same sum (the integer "4") over and over again, ad infinitum, are just SATANIST ATTEMPTS to push a secularist, science-based, mathematically-determinist agenda on our children!

righteously,
Bright

[izquierdista]

7. Not only that....

It's Jewish science too, as some politicians in the '30s liked to point out.

[PanoramaIsland]

9. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer! Albert Eintstein! Goldman-Sachs! ELENA KAGAN! EVERYTHING IS RUN BY JEWS!1111

:sarcasm:

[jgraz]

8. And just when I thought Andy Schlafly couldn't possibly be more of a dumbass.

:crazy:

[starroute]

10. I think it's simply the word "relativity" he doesn't like

Conservatives seem to think Einstein's relativity has something to do with moral relativism.

I'll grant they're not 100% wrong -- if you read stories or articles from the 1920's, you can occasionally spot somebody saying something like, "Einstein proved that everything is relative."

But taking that sort of argument seriously -- and thinking it says anything real about the science -- is not only foolishness but 80-years-out-of-date foolishness.

[Scuba]

11. Not to mention that mathematicians use Arabic numbers, for God's sake!!!

[AspenRose]

15. !

:spray:

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Well look on the bright side

at least he is not calling it a JEWISH conspiracy...

Yes, they did not go there, but I am sure the thought passed their mind.

[mike r]

14. Without relativity, the GPS system would be worthless in one day:

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

Just a random example.

Relativity is real and it is a law of the universe.

Idiots.

[jgraz]

16. I seem to remember reading that they'd drift several meters per day.

[old mark]

17. When I can't believe they could get any dumber, they do it again!

They did it again!


:rofl:


mark

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

18. No exceptions=relativism? Hokay.

[howard112211]

20. Funny. It used to be called a Jewish conspiracy because Einstein was a Jew.

So conservapedia is rebranding age old anti-semitism.

Actually, the nazis called Einstein the "relativity Jew" and such. First they claimed his theory is wrong. Later when that was no longer possible they claimed that Aryan physicists had already known this stuff way earlier and that Einstein stole it.

The nazis actually published a work titled "One hundered physicists against Einstein". When Einstein heard about it he said "Why one hundered? If I was wrong, one would be sufficient".

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Yeah. "Jew science". Meanwhile, Jews who fled Hitler's hellhole were working in Los Alamos

building the first atomic bombs.

More proof that right-wing anti-intellectualism tends to bite itself on the ass, eventually.