List of Poe's Law examples

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This is a list of examples of Poe's Law.

Poe's Law states:[1]

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

Below is a mostly thorough list of websites that have been subjected to Poe's Law, either by people commenting on them as serious business or by virtue of someone spotting them, getting confused, and dumping the link on RationalWiki. Notably, not all examples seem to relate to religious fundamentalism or right-wing politics.

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[edit] People

[edit] The Earth

All I was saying was that either the earth is flat, and the bible is correct, or the earth is round, and the bible is incorect, i'm going to study the issue more and deside for myself which route I want to take. Either Atheist evolutionist, who agrees with all of mainstream sciences, or flat earth litteral bible believer. I'm leaning toward being an atheist, because if I can't believe the bible to be completly litteraly true, then I can't believe Jesus when he speaks about heaven, etc.. That would make the moon landing a fake, and pretty much all of modern science false... [8]

[edit] Creationism

[edit] Politics

[edit] Ministries and churches

[edit] Anti-science

[edit] Assorted oddballs

Rational and irrational media

[edit] Footnotes

  1. "Poe's Law" in the Urban Dictionary
  2. Huffinton Post - Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking. Based on, [http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/2/212 The Irony of Satire - LaMarre, H.L.; Landreville, K.D.; Beam, M.A., The International Journal of Press/Politics Vol. 14, No. 2, 212-231 (2009)]
  3. Amusingly, this is kind of true, since the landmass that is now India originally separated from Africa and collided with Eurasia, resulting in the formation of the Himalaya Mountains.
  4. [1]
  5. Slate.com Young Woman Who Thanked God for the Japanese Disaster "Comes Clean"
  6. [2]
  7. The Atlantic Wire -The Japan Quake YouTube Troll Explains Herself (comments section)
  8. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe's+Law
  9. Blogs for Brownback
  10. Christwire.org
  11. http://christwire.org/2010/05/miley-cyrus-video-produces-questionable-new-organism-face-photographs/
  12. Science and Math Defeated's listing at StumbleUpon
  13. Nope.
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