Wikipedia reveals mass editing and input by the usual suspects - The CIA, the Vatican, the British Labour Party and the Church of Scientology.
Thanks to Ann Marie for this one.
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In an attempt to undermine Wikipedia, which it regards as “anti American, and anti-Christian“, there is now a conservative version, called (you guessed it) Conservapedia. (I won’t give you the link; believe me, you don’t want to visit).
Maxine, over at Petrona, has a wonderful sample of the kind of nonsense you can expect to find there.
And there is also this, from Conservapedia’s page on abortion:
The majority of scientific studies have shown that abortion causes an increase in breast cancer, including 16 out of 17 statistically significant studies. However, like the tobacco industry in the 1950s, the abortion industry has so far kept this important information away from much of the public. This may be due to the profitability of selling fetal parts for Chinese medicine.
And towards the end of the Copernicus entry, there is a really nice surprise:
“To this day, most Protestant countries reject the Copernican theory.”
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