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Thread #112432   Message #2381079
Posted By: Bee
04-Jul-08 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Conservapedia: Is this a joke??!?
Subject: RE: BS: Conservapedia: Is this a joke??!?
If you want to see an example of Conservapedia at its most asinine, here they are harassing Richard Lenski, a scientist whose painstaking twenty year experiments with e.coli have recently paid off with phenomenal results. Conservapedia's main troll, Andy Schafly (yes, that Phyllis' son) has escalated from making truly absurd demands to currently threatening legal assaults.

The links all go to Pharyngula at ScienceBlogs, but all relevant links are included in PZ's posts, as are the sequence of events, Lenski's excellent responses, and explanations as to why Conservapedia's demands make no sense whatsoever, as they couldn't understand Lenski's data, have no lab facilities in which to keep, store or grow the bacteria they are demanding(!), and clearly have no clue what they are asking for.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/hubris_gall_arroganceinanity.php

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/lenski_gives_conservapdia_a_le.php

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/schlafly_wants_to_play_rough_n.php