# Can the amount of stupid on this webpage be topped? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565 "2008-12-03T21:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/41 "2008-12-05T23:42:08Z")
I was going to let this die, but I must say that I am delighted to find out that even conservatives cannot distinguish their beliefs from satire. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/42 "2008-12-06T00:11:12Z")
> [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > From a sidebar on the atheism article:Can’t even comment on that … By ‘there is an ongoing debate’, they mean that Andy or one of his minions suggested it and they talk about it. In much the same way that they decided there was a debate about if Dawkins was a professor at Oxford or not. Oxford says yes, Andy S says no. His page was cluttered on there for a long time with Andy’s ramblings about how Dawkins wasn’t ‘really’ a professor. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/43 "2008-12-06T09:53:12Z")
A few years ago, when I first visited Conservapedia, I could not believe the twisted mentality of some of those contributors. For example, here’s an early version of the [Albert Einstein](http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Albert_Einstein&oldid=5277) page. By visiting Conservapedia we learn the real facts about science and not the contrived doctrine that is spewed forth by those liberal, politically correct, homosexual agenda, pro-abortion, evolution believing professors. Here’s some interesting Conservapedia “facts” about relativity: > [@](#): > > _From this proposed bending of space the expression arose that “space is curved.” But experiments later proved that space is overall flat after all._ > [@](#): > > _Nothing useful has even been built based on the theory of relativity._ > [@](#): > > - > > Many observed phenomenon, such as the bending of light passing near the sun or the advance of the perihelion in the orbit of Mercury, can be also predicted by Newton’s theory.\* Well, I’m glad all that got straightened out. Perhaps those “facts” were a “whoosh” made by a Conservapedia member who wanted to vandalize the site a bit. However, since that is one of the first postings (and considering the Barrack Obama article) it’s not too much of a stretch that the author of that article really believed that crap. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/44 "2008-12-06T13:44:27Z")
Conservapedia is awesome in its stupidity. I was feeling almost mesmerized by the articles but I managed to pull myself away before too many brain cells died, I hope. I love this entry in the references in the Wikipedia entry for [Conservapedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia) > [@](#): > > Maloney, Evan (2007-05-30). “Conservapedia: as accurate as a catatonic drunkard’s line of urine”. Splat!. News.com.au. Retrieved on 2008-06-08 Oh, and I love Uncyclopedia. Another fine site to waste my days 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/45 "2008-12-06T21:55:20Z")
**RickQ** Heck, Uncyclopedia is great and I go there to get some good laughs. However, unlike Conservapedia, the Uncyclopedia is written to be funny _intentionally_. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/46 "2008-12-06T22:16:04Z")
> [@beanpod](#): > > So funny. They cite a news story about the Hawaii Dept. of Health verifying that his birth certificate is real, and still say “allegedly.” This is my favorite though: > > “Doctors from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons have stated that Obama uses techniques of mind control in his speeches and campaign symbols.” > > Then the words “mind control” link to an article on brainwashing. Any time someone cites the Association of American Physicans and Surgeons in an approving manner, it’s a good indication they are heavily into nutbaggery. The AAPS is a fringe group of Arizona-based far-right nincompoops who among other things are heavily [anti-vaccine](http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nrvacres.htm), don’t believe in shaken baby syndrome (it’s caused by vaccines, doncha know) and promote a bunch of other goofy ideas through their “scientific journal” (which is so pathetic that the NCI’s Pub Med database doesn’t even index its articles). The following take on the AAPS from [RationalWiki](http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/AAPS) is a wee bit over the top, but basically on target: _“The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a small group of “conservative” quacks, cranks and fundamentalist zealots which likes to rail against such timeless evils as abortion, vaccination and the idea of universal health care coverage. It is sufficiently batshit insane to have retained Andrew Schlafly as its general counsel and is strongly suspected of consuming their own newborn infants.”_ The Obama"mind control" stuff is just the latest indication of how far over the edge they are. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/47 "2008-12-07T02:33:43Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > It’s run by Andy Schlafly, Phyllis Schlafly’s son, and yes, it’s real, although it has a pretty exclusive definition of conservative. Isn’t he supposedly gayer than a picnic basket and so far back in the closet he’s got an audience with Aslan? My personal favorites? -[Walter Cronkite](http://www.conservapedia.com/Walter_Cronkite) -[J. Edgar Hoover](http://www.conservapedia.com/J._Edgar_Hoover) (Notice how short it is, and how it omits his alleged homosexuality and cross-dressing fetish) -[Ronald Reagan](http://www.conservapedia.com/Ronald_Wilson_Reagan) -[United Nations](http://www.conservapedia.com/United_Nations) -[Oscar Romero](http://www.conservapedia.com/Oscar_Romero) -[Jimmy Carter](http://www.conservapedia.com/Jimmy_Carter) -[Augusto Pinochet](http://www.conservapedia.com/Augusto_Pinochet) Their catagory on [Psychology](http://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Psychology) is pretty far out. And of course, the previously linked Wiki entry for Conservapedia. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/48 "2008-12-07T04:55:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Isn’t he supposedly gayer than a picnic basket and so far back in the closet he’s got an audience with Aslan? No, that’s Phyllis’ other son, John. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/49 "2008-12-07T05:24:58Z")
Ah, thank you. > [@74westy](#): > > Anyone ever heard of [Poe’s Law](http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:How_can_we_protect_Conservapedia_by_distinguishing_real_conservative_encyclopedia_articles_from_satires_written_by_liberals%3F)? I think I like that **Czolgolz** guy-he should be a Doper: > [@](#): > > I disagree. I see several articles about people who never existed, but sound like they might have. Case in point, all the Spanish profanity on the Cambodia page that sat there for over a month until I decided to let everyone in on the joke. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565/50 "2008-12-07T06:33:44Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Okay I’m convinced you could copy and paste this article, and maybe the atheist one, word for word and post it on Uncyclopedia or Encyclopaedia Dramatica and no one would bat an eye. This. It reads like parody. I had to go look at the Uncyclopedia [articles](http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Obama) [on Barry.](http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Baraq_Hussein_Osama) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-amount-of-stupid-on-this-webpage-be-topped/475565.md?page=2)