Episode 231: Conservapedia

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Sometimes it feels like the online world is split into multiple, incompatible perceptions of reality. This is not a new development. In fact, in the mid-aughts one man tried to create an isolated island of American christian conservative thinking by launching a website called Conservapedia. Though it was advertised as being free from the supposed liberal bias of Wikipedia, Conservapedia became a home of pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and general right-wing grievances. It even launched a project to create a new English translation of the Bible that was manlier and more conservative than previous translations. To help us understand the history of Conservapedia, we recruited our resident reddit atheist debunker, Travis. He’s going to walk us through the story of Conservpedia’s creation and show off some of the latest additions to the online encyclopedia, which is still active after 17 years. References https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-19-na-schlafly19-story.html https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Night_of_the_Blunt_Knives https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lenski_affair https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/11/conservative-bible-project-liberal-conservapedia Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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0:00.0	Welcome listener to chapter 231 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Conservapedia episode,
0:22.2	as always we are your host Jake Rockatansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue.
0:27.0	Sometimes when you're online it feels like the world is split into multiple incompatible
0:32.4	perceptions of reality.
0:34.3	This is not a new development, in fact in the mid-Auts one man tried to create an isolated
0:38.7	island of American Christian conservative thinking by launching a website called Conservapedia.
0:43.6	Though it was advertised as being free from the supposed liberal bias of Wikipedia, Conservapedia
0:47.9	became a home for pseudo science, conspiracy theories, and general right wing grievances.
0:53.0	It even launched a project to create a new English translation of the Bible that was
0:56.7	manlier and more conservative than previous translations.
0:59.8	To help us understand the history of Conservapedia we have recruited our resident Reddit atheist
1:04.9	debunker, Travis, and he is going to walk us through the story of Conservapedia's creation
1:10.0	and show off some of the latest additions to the online encyclopedia which is still active
1:14.5	after 17 years.
1:16.2	17.
1:17.2	Q.
1:18.9	So yeah, this actually came from a few requests of listeners and it was a really good idea
1:26.1	because I actually remember when the rise of Conservapedia because this was basically
1:30.4	right around the time of my interest in creationism.
1:34.0	This was a big part of this weird kind of like early wrestling between different forces
1:40.2	online trying to determine what exactly the online world would be used for, what would
1:44.9	it be used for to spread a lot of nonsense ideas about pseudo science?
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