2025 RationalWiki 'Oregon Plan' Fundraiser

There is no RationalWiki without you. We are a small non-profit with no staff—we are hundreds of volunteers who document pseudoscience and crankery around the world every day. We will never allow ads because we must remain independent. We cannot rely on big donors with corresponding big agendas. We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.
We are 100% user-supported! Help and donate $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can today with PayPal Logo.png!
Donations so far: $8765.50Goal: $10000

Conservapedia:Examples of bias in Conservapedia

From RationalWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Wigocp.svg This Conservapedia-related article is of largely historical interest and is no longer the focus of RationalWiki today.
Conservapedia (and religious fundamentalism to an extent) was a major focal point in the early history of RationalWiki, but long ago ceased coming up with new ways to appall and amuse.
Our energies are now spent debunking other, fresher examples of pseudoscientific claims, authoritarianism, and deceit.
For RationalWiki's less ancient content, try the Best of RationalWiki.

The following is a list of examples of anti-scientific, fundamentalist Christian, and pro-Republican bias in articles on Conservapedia.

  1. Theory of evolution: Prominently features a picture of Adolf Hitler, attempting to link Nazi race politics with evolution. Almost the entire article is composed of selectively mined quotes from scientists (and in some cases, non-scientists) who agree with evolution. It also overemphasises mistakes made by scientists over the years e.g. Nebraska man, Piltdown man.
  2. Homosexuality: Blames sexually transmitted diseases on homosexuals and diagnoses homosexuality as a mental pathology.
  3. The Barack Obama "article" is actually a hatchet-job that focuses on attacks ranging from "Obama he is a Muslim" to "his Aunt is in the U.S. illegally" to the most petty of things such as "he forgot to put his hand on his chest while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance." (Incidentally, it took quite a while to update the article once he actually became president.) They even went so far as to say Barack HUSSEIN Obama was the first Affirmative Action President, which would be true, if you ignore this whole thing that happened a while back.
  4. Atheism: Features an image of a person locked up in prison for being an atheist, specifically mentioning that he was cruel and sadistic.
  5. God: Credits God with being the "sovereign creator and eternal ruler of all things and beings that exist, whether in the physical universe or in the spiritual realm (Heaven)." There is nothing that says it is referring to the Christian God (which it obviously is) or that it is a religious entity so subject to being a worldview more than fact. The article makes little attempt to clarify that "God" as a word is present in many cultures and religions but not all are the Abrahamic God of the Bible.
  6. United States of America: Has a long section covering the role of religion in government and nothing on foreign relationships.
  7. Sarah Palin: Mentions none of the common criticisms levelled at her, such as her inexperience (although the Barack Obama critics love to use that point).
  8. Australian Aborigines: At one time mentioned that some researchers claimed that there have been people in Australia for 40,000 years, even though young earth creationists say that the earth is only 6,000 years old.
  9. Gun control: Complains that banning guns causes dependency on the government, and argues that gun control would lead to higher gun-related crime rates.
  10. Public schools: Complains that American public schools are liberal and atheistic, that classroom prayer is censored and that students are subject to mandatory homosexual indoctrination.
  11. Conservative Bias: features a lengthy quote from the CEO of Fox News denying any bias on the part of the network. (Page since deleted.)
  12. Lion: Focuses primarily on the roles that lions played in the Bible.
  13. Kangaroo: Suggests that all kangaroos originated from two animals taken on board Noah's Ark while the question of how the kangaroo evolved is relegated to a one-line "evolutionist worldview".
  14. Long Beach, California: decried as "a liberal city in southern California". Given the number of retired people and veterans, many people would describe it as a conservative city, but then again TheAmericanRedoubt, who added that description lives in Idaho.
  15. Unalienable rights: gets into divorce and polygamy as god given rights.

See also[edit]