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==Conservative principles==
{{cquote|The most conservative of conservative principles is reverence for the rule of law.|||Liz Cheney<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/politics/cheney-house-floor-remarks/index.html</ref>}}
==Inflating the statistics on COVID vaccination acceptance==
A Mainpage-right article, placed at 18:28, 24 April 2021, says
::'''The [[CDC]] and other [[health]] authorities are inflating the [[statistics]] on [[COVID]] [[vaccination]]''' acceptance. ''In fact, many fewer people are taking it than the CDC says.''
The item links to the external page [https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2021/04/24/accountability/science/manipulating-vaccine-recipients-numbers-to-isolate-the-non-vaccinated-their-hyper-inflated-numbers-are-just-not-true/], which is an article by Bradley Dean on the "conservative news and views" web site. Since the claims in that posting are so utterly at odds with what every sensible person knows to be true, I decided to check it out.
First, I ignored the Bible quotes sprinkled through it. These quotes all predate the Coronavirus and the vaccine. Why some people sprinkle completely irrelevant Bible quotes into their writing is beyond me.
:Ephesians 4:14
:John 8:44
:Deuteronomy 16:19
:Leviticus 17:11, 19:19
:Psalm 94:20
:Romans 1:18
Now one of the major points of the article seems to be:
::The truth be told, the only ones that we can verify that are dying are the ones that have taken their vaccines (Leviticus 17:11, 19:19).
The only ones that ''you'' can verify? Other people seem to be able to verify over 1/2 a million people in this country that aren't just dying; they have died. And most of them died before a vaccine became available, so they couldn't have "taken their vaccines".
You shouldn't just make stuff up. Especially when it flies in the face of the reality that every sensible person knows.
Another major statement is
::I have a friend that is the main law enforcement officer in his county. One day, he voluntarily told me that we are being told that 75% of the elderly have been vaccinated by the mainstream media and yet, these numbers do not fit. He went on and said that we have 147,000 alone in this county. He said that he had the real numbers in front of him. And out of that 147,000 only 5,400 people had received their vaccinations. Friends, that is not 75%; that is less than 3%.
:Who is this friend?
:What county?
:Who are "the elderly"? How is that defined? Isn't 75% a suspiciously imprecise number?
:We are being told this? By whom?
:"These numbers do not fit." You're probably right. But it would be good to know that the numbers actually are, and what they are supposed to fit with.
:He has the real numbers in front of him? Good. Publish them. Just copy and paste them into the article. Internet space is cheap. That's better than telling us what an anonymous friend told you.
==Pseudoscience==
==Pseudoscience==
Thanks to [[User:Dataclarifier]] for bringing this to my attention.
Thanks to [[User:Dataclarifier]] for bringing this to my attention.
==Is [[Conservapedia proven right]] about relativity and other similar topics in science?==
It does not appear so.
The material below was removed by the site owner in mid-October, 2020.
I restored it with the edit comment: ''Restore material that is carefully researched, well established, and widely accepted by experts in the field.''
It was taken out again, by someone who is not known to have demonstrated any expertise in relativity: ''Undo revision 1697217 by SamHB (talk) only according to liberals who believe and accept pseudo-scientific hogwash''
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!Date of ''Conservapedia's'' statement
!''Conservapedia's'' statement
![[liberal claptrap]] in response
!Result
!Date of Result
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|February 27, 2011
|"Despite wasting millions of taxpayer dollars searching for gravity waves predicted by the theory, none have ever been found."<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Counterexamples_to_Relativity&oldid=852797</ref> This was actually true at the time, but the implication was that gravitational waves would ''never'' be found.
|The (perhaps overzealous) researchers at the "BICEP2" project claimed to have discovered evidence of gravitational waves from the "[[big bang]]".<ref>https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3985v1</ref> This was shot down in 2015: "Gravitational waves discovery now officially dead."<ref>http://www.nature.com/news/gravitational-waves-discovery-now-officially-dead-1.16830</ref> But in 2015 and 2016, gravitational waves from colliding [[black hole]]s were irrefutably detected by the [[LIGO]] instruments. See [[Gravitational waves]].
|Confirmed.<ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>http://www.ligo.org/news/pressreleases.php</ref><ref>http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20160211a</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160211v2</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/gravitational-waves-ripples-space-time-detected-first-time-n516566</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEPIwEJmZyE</ref><ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/it-wasn-t-fluke-scientists-see-black-holes-collide-again-n593156</ref><ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-detect-second-gravitational-wave-einstein-predicted/</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160615</ref>
<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html</ref><ref>https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/ligo20160615v2</ref><ref>https://phys.org/news/2017-06-gravitational-insight-black-holes.html</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36472434#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa</ref>
|January 21, 2016
|}
==Speaking of Google searches==
==Speaking of Google searches==
But taking the phrase "watch it [atheism] burn away allies" and turning it into "watch it burn" is the most astonishing act of quoting out of context that I have ever seen.
But taking the phrase "watch it [atheism] burn away allies" and turning it into "watch it burn" is the most astonishing act of quoting out of context that I have ever seen.
:[https://youtu.be/5oyZJDBUzWc This clip explains the phenomena]
== Reinhold Niebuhr Quote (well, paraphrase)==
== Reinhold Niebuhr Quote (well, paraphrase)==
Don't bother replying, or otherwise trying to engage me on the subject of evolution; I'm not interested.
Don't bother replying, or otherwise trying to engage me on the subject of evolution; I'm not interested.
==Some inspirational quotes==
(lifted from someone's user page)
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<nowiki>[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|center|"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." - [[Sun Tzu]] ]]
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[[File:Patton.jpg|thumbnail|center|200px|"After looking at the available evidence, when it comes to having a fit and trim physique, [[Jesus Christ]] most definitely won the Battle of the Bulge and the atheist and [[evolution]]ist [[PZ Myers]] was utterly defeated." - [[George S. Patton]]
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For more information, please see: [[Essay: Battle of the Bulge: Jesus vs. PZ Myers|Battle of the Bulge: Jesus vs. PZ Myers]] ]]
The George Patton quote above is particularly prescient, since he died in 1945 and PZ Myers was born in 1957.
Something from [[User:Conservative]] put on his incoming mail page. I'll have something to say about this soon, but for now I just want to save it, especially since Cons is fond of vaping his writing.
[[File:Brick-wall.jpg|thumbnail|300px|center|[[User: SamHB]], my favorite two sentences of my recent essay: "And [[Essay: RationalWiki admits it has a weirdo, pansie infestation|your wiki's]] failure to identify my multiple sockpuppet posts at your website is another brick in the high wall of evidence I have provided that more than one editor has edited using the [[User: Conservative]] account. And yet, many of the prideful, godless men at your website continue to double down on their pigheaded denialism about this matter." See: [[User:Conservative's essays]]</nowiki> ]]
==Real Men Know How and When to Kneel==
(Lifted from the [[George Washington]] page.)
[[Image:W-pray.jpg|right|thumb|''"I was riding with Mr. Potts near to the Valley Forge where the army lay during the war of ye Revolution, when Mr. Potts said, 'Do you see that woods & that plain? There laid the army of Washington. It was a most distressing time of ye war, and all were for giving up the Ship but that great and good man. In that woods (pointing to a close in view) I heard a plaintive sound as of a man at prayer.... To my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other. He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis & the cause of the country, of humanity & of the world. Such a prayer I never heard from the lips of man. "''.<ref>From ''Diary and Remembrances,'' by Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden (1770-1851), who received it from an eyewitness to the scene, Valley Forge resident Isaac Potts</ref>]]
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