Comments on: What do conservatives spend their time thinking about?

By: boystowners.com » Obsessed much?

boystowners.com » Obsessed much? — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:14:25 +0000

[...] Feministe, checkout this listing of the most viewed articles on Conservapedia: 1. Main Page‎ [1,897,388] 2. Homosexuality‎ [1,488,013] 3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis‎ [...]

By: MK

MK — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:13:09 +0000

if you’re looking for a good laugh, read the first sentence for the conservipedia article on “ronald regan”

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:02:05 +0000

Uh oh, I might have contributed to this…. my entire (very liberal) family amused ourselves for a good hour on Conservapedia last week (ah, Thanksgiving… this is what you do if you’re not into football) and we did go to the “homosexuality” page because we thought it would be one of the funniest. It was. The “atheism” page was up there, too. I didn’t look at the “gay bowel syndrome” page, though… if only I’d known it was there!

By: jimi45

jimi45 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:35:29 +0000

If only my mandatory pre-school GSA had set me straight!

I thought it was their job to set you queer.

By: The Amazing Kim

The Amazing Kim — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:05:17 +0000

There's a link somewhere...

By: The Amazing Kim

The Amazing Kim — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:01:13 +0000

I think Gay Bowel Syndrome is when you fart rainbows.
Examples of bias in Wikipedia is always good for a laugh. I especially like the bit where it claims that 60% of Americans believe in Noah’s flood (which Wikipedia lists under deluge mythology, to their chagrin), and then a few paragraphs later claims that truth is not a democracy.

By: Ford MF

Ford MF — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:16:20 +0000

It's generally held as common knowledge in Wiki circles that those Conservapedia stats are manipulated by clickbot attacks from people over at RationalWiki

By: Schmorgluck

Schmorgluck — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:15:40 +0000

The results on the Wikipedia charts didn’t surprise me alot (I expected worse).
Although, I’ve been briefly puzzled by the position of the “C programming language” article (21st). Until I realized that, since it’s not really easy to search about this language using a search engine, Wikipedia can be a good way to find informations about it (plus, Wikipedia article concerning programming are generally good). Yet, I’m still a bit astonished to find it ahead of, say, “Batman” for example. Or “Sex”, to get back on topic.

By: Alana

Alana — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:51:24 +0000

Yes, the statistics are fake. It’s not clear whether they’ve been externally manipulated or whether the author of the homosexuality articles (who is apparently a moderator and likes his articles on top) screwed with the stats.

However, someone on Crooked Timber pointed out that the fact remains that all those articles on “Homosexuality and [disease x]” do exist, meaning the statistics are fake but more or less accurate. A casual examination of the talk pages (which can be a lot of fun!) on Conservapedia will also provide ample anecdotal evidence of said fixation.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:19:12 +0000

Gay bowel syndrome is actually a medical condition, but it’s not a term that’s used anymore (by actual thinking clinicians, anyway) and many of its manifestations turned out to be related to HIV.