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It looks like Scriabin is deliberately trying to mislead in a web-site that is used by minors.  Now, I also think it's criminal to indoctrinate minors with creationist lies as well - in doing so, Conservapedia is sowing the seeds of future atheists, when they come to realise what a lot of nonsense so-called "creation science" is.  But I guess I'm not going to persuade the Conservapedia editors about this.  But if any sysadmin reads this, they would be well advised to go to Scriabin's contribs page and note that in the last few days s/he has contributed a large number of articles and (from the two or three I've sampled so far) it seems they are all as deliberately misleading as the Shostakovich article.

It looks like Scriabin is deliberately trying to mislead in a web-site that is used by minors.  Now, I also think it's criminal to indoctrinate minors with creationist lies as well - in doing so, Conservapedia is sowing the seeds of future atheists, when they come to realise what a lot of nonsense so-called "creation science" is.  But I guess I'm not going to persuade the Conservapedia editors about this.  But if any sysadmin reads this, they would be well advised to go to Scriabin's contribs page and note that in the last few days s/he has contributed a large number of articles and (from the two or three I've sampled so far) it seems they are all as deliberately misleading as the Shostakovich article.

Of course, I could be wrong, and maybe Scriabin is completely genuine ...

Of course, I could be wrong, and maybe Scriabin is completely genuine ...  but I can't make up my mind whether it's more judgemental to accuse someone of being a liar or being stupid.  I think I'll give Scriabin the benefit of the doubt - I believe Scriabin is actually pretty smart.

I don't agree with the views of Conservapedia at all and I'm also British and proud of it.  But if it was considered appropriate, I'd be willing to contribute an article on Shostakovich that attempts to give a more factual picture of the composer - if only because impressionable youngsters are going to be reading this stuff and quoting it in their essays.

I don't agree with the views of Conservapedia at all and I'm also British and proud of it.  But if it was considered appropriate, I'd be willing to contribute an article on Shostakovich that attempts to give a more factual picture of the composer - if only because impressionable youngsters are going to be reading this stuff and quoting it in their essays.

[[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 20:09, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

[[User:Daffodil|Daffodil]] 20:09, 15 March 2007 (EDT)