# Conservapedia: relativistic concept of "curvature of space" promotes broad legal right to abortion **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602 "2013-09-11T20:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/41 "2013-09-13T18:35:54Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I don’t think we can really question the genius of the people who invented oral sex. Who invented oral sex? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/42 "2013-09-13T18:47:50Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Who invented oral sex? Oral Roberts. Before he found the Lord. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/43 "2013-09-13T20:34:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Oral Roberts. Before he found the Lord. I though it was his brother, Anal Roberts who invented it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/44 "2013-09-13T21:51:34Z")
I had a severe anal hershiser once, and had to have surgery. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/45 "2013-09-13T22:13:03Z")
Hershey is supposed to melt in your _mouth_. The resemblance to Ex-Lax is superficial. (Aside: I wonder if anyone else had a grandmother who believed that constipation was the single most insidious threat to pediatric health?) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/46 "2013-09-13T22:34:30Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hershey is supposed to melt in your _mouth_. The resemblance to Ex-Lax is superficial. > > (Aside: I wonder if anyone else had a grandmother who believed that constipation was the single most insidious threat to pediatric health?) In the middle of a Broadway play, the leading actor suddenly collapsed on the stage. The curtains were hurriedly closed. After a few moments, the manager came out and addressed the audience: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am very sorry. Our lead actor has . . . has died. We cannot continue this play. We will refund your money.” One old Jewish lady in the audience cried out, “Give him an enema!” “Erm . . . perhaps you didn’t hear me. The man is dead.” "Give . . . him . . . an . . . _enema!"_ “Madame, he’s _dead!_ An enema wouldn’t help!” “It couldn’t hurt!” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/47 "2013-09-14T03:12:27Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > If these people were to ever come so close as a tangent, I’d be impressed. _Ark_tangent ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/48 "2013-09-15T04:04:45Z")
I wonder if part of their hatred of Einstein is because he was a passionate advocate for world government – eliminating the world’s arbitrary nation-state boundaries, and with them the ignorant abomination known as “patriotism.” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/49 "2013-09-15T05:12:30Z")
I think they hate him ever since they got a “C” in high school science. (“But if I’m going 9/10 of the speed of light, and shoot a rocket that goes 9/10 of the speed of light, how come…?”) These are the kind of people who don’t comprehend square roots. Conservative thinking rejects the idea that there might be two right answers to a question. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/50 "2013-09-15T06:20:05Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I think they hate him ever since they got a “C” in high school science. So did Einstein, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/51 "2013-09-15T12:30:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So did Einstein, I believe. No, that’s a myth. Einstein himself used to laugh about the rumors that he had been a poor student. In reality, he had been at the head of his class and took advanced courses. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/52 "2013-09-15T12:35:30Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Poe’s law in effect. Sometimes it is hard to tell what is honestly written there. I agree. I suspect a lot of the dumb stuff you can find at Conservapedia is planted there by pranksters trying to see how outrageous a lie they can submit and still get believed. But my sympathy for the targets of their humor is alleviated by the fact they do believe these lies. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/53 "2013-09-15T15:58:34Z")
I’m half tempted to create an entry on how [science has once-and-for-all proven that gay marriage is wrong](http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/3920879?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false&fb_source=timeline&ref=profile). That article is exactly what conservapedia was made for. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/54 "2013-09-15T16:11:32Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > I’m half tempted to create an entry on how [science has once-and-for-all proven that gay marriage is wrong](http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/3920879?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false&fb_source=timeline&ref=profile). > > That article is exactly what conservapedia was made for. It was funny that the report it links to shows that the “researcher” lives in Godwin way. Just as I expected, that yahoo may had been good with physics and chemistry, but he is going to different fields and he admits that he has started with a preconceived notion and has not published his research in a recognized scientific journal. Not very likely to see that, nor the “respect around the world” that he reports. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602/55 "2013-09-15T17:06:13Z")
As for the OP, one thing to notice is how in the references of the conservapedia entry they mention that the “liberally based Wikipedia” does not allow a single criticism of Einstein’s theory, but in reality there is an entry on the Brans-Dicke theory that is very fair in a different article. > **[Brans–Dicke theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brans%E2%80%93Dicke_theory)** > > In physics, the Brans–Dicke theory of gravitation (sometimes called the Jordan–Brans–Dicke theory) is a competitor to Einstein's general theory of relativity. It is an example of a scalar–tensor theory, a gravitational theory in which the gravitational interaction is mediated by a scalar field as well as the tensor field of general relativity. The gravitational constant > > > > G > > > {\\displaystyle G} > > is not presumed to be constant but instead > > > > ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservapedia-relativistic-concept-of-curvature-of-space-promotes-broad-legal-right-to-abortion/668602.md?page=2)