[[File:Wager.PNG|1450px|center|thumb|[https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#All_this_could_have_been_avoided it didn't have to be this way], but more than 1 million dead later with [[American]] [[taxpayer]] support, we can say that's how it turned out.]]
[[File:Wager.PNG|1450px|center|thumb|[https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#All_this_could_have_been_avoided it didn't have to be this way], but more than 1 million dead later with [[American]] [[taxpayer]] support, we can say that's how it turned out.]]
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I was de-sysopped in [[Conservapedia]] in 2011 for no other reason than having '''the ability to carry on civil discussions with users of opposing views''' at both [[Conservapedia]] and [[Rationalwiki]]. That action had devastating consequences on civility in [[Conservapedia]] and its ability to build a user base.
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{{Cquote|The prospect of domination of the [[nation]]'s [[scholar]]s by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of [[money]] is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding [[scientific]] research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public [[policy]] could itself become the captive of a [[Technocracy|scientific-technological]] [[Elitism|elite]].|||[[President Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[Military-industrial complex|Military-Industrial]] speech, January 17, 1961. [https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address]}}
{{Cquote|The prospect of domination of the [[nation]]'s [[scholar]]s by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of [[money]] is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding [[scientific]] research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public [[policy]] could itself become the captive of a [[Technocracy|scientific-technological]] [[Elitism|elite]].|||[[President Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[Military-industrial complex|Military-Industrial]] speech, January 17, 1961. [https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address]}}