I was reading this fantastic e-mail dialog between biologist Richard Lenski and Wikipedia-killer Andy Schlafly, when I decided to poke around the intertubes for stuff about Conservapedia. I eventually landed on this article, originally published in the Los Angeles Times a year ago:
Andy Schlafly was appalled. He was teaching a history class to home-schooled teens and one student had just turned in an assignment that dated events as “BCE,” before the common era — rather than “B.C.,” before Christ.
“Where did that come from?” he demanded.
Her answer: “Wikipedia.”
At that, Schlafly knew he had to act. . . . Thus was born Conservapedia.com — touted as “a conservative encyclopedia you can trust.”
This reminds me of the time I started my own country because of a dispute over the price of tea.
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