* The [[DNC]] advanced Obama as a presidential candidate in 2008, confident that they would be able to conceal potentially devastating information about his [[Muslim]] faith and the [[Barack Obama birthplace controversy|location of his birth]]. Eventually it was discovered that the conservatives were just lying about both of these facts and were too arrogant to admit that they were lying. <ref> [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/26/18-percent-american-public/obama-muslim-no-hes-not-evidence-has-not-changed/] </ref>* [[Environmentalists]], confident that they would be vindicated by [[science]], insisted that [[global warming]] was an established fact. Global warming as a theory has now been thoroughly discredited by conservative scientists. The world's leading scientists still argue that global warming is a very real and dangerous issue that must be dealt with. <ref>June 2009 Global Temperature Anomaly Update [http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/07/june-2009-global-temperature-anomaly-update-000-deg-c/]</ref> <ref> [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/24/3638084/neil-degrasse-tyson-florida-climate-ban/] </ref>* The [[archaeoraptor]] incident, where evolutionists eager for evidence for their theory fell for a simple hoax. | * The [[DNC]] advanced Obama as a presidential candidate in 2008, confident that they would be able to conceal potentially devastating information about his [[Muslim]] faith and the [[Barack Obama birthplace controversy|location of his birth]]. Eventually it was discovered that the conservatives were just lying about both of these facts and were too arrogant to admit that they were lying. <ref> [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/26/18-percent-american-public/obama-muslim-no-hes-not-evidence-has-not-changed/] </ref>* [[Environmentalists]], confident that they would be vindicated by [[science]], insisted that [[global warming]] was an established fact. Global warming as a theory has now been thoroughly discredited by conservative scientists. The world's leading scientists still argue that global warming is a very real and dangerous issue that must be dealt with. <ref>June 2009 Global Temperature Anomaly Update [http://www.drroyspencer.com/2009/07/june-2009-global-temperature-anomaly-update-000-deg-c/]</ref> <ref> [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/24/3638084/neil-degrasse-tyson-florida-climate-ban/] </ref>* The [[archaeoraptor]] incident, where evolutionists eager for evidence for their theory fell for a simple hoax. |