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<Blockquote>''As a site we have a point of view, and that point of view is that the scientific method and the information gained from its application is better than almost anything else humanity has come up with. We believe that the support of, profiting from and creation of pseudosciences is dangerous and wrong. [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/RationalWiki:Project_Whitewash/What_is_a_RationalWiki_article]''</Blockquote> | <Blockquote>''As a site we have a point of view, and that point of view is that the scientific method and the information gained from its application is better than almost anything else humanity has come up with. We believe that the support of, profiting from and creation of pseudosciences is dangerous and wrong. [http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/RationalWiki:Project_Whitewash/What_is_a_RationalWiki_article]''</Blockquote> | ||
==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||
Many of the members, especially admins admit to having been vandals at many different wikis including [[Conservapedia]]. They have attacked Conservapedia in the following manners | Many of the members, especially admins, admit to having been vandals at many different wikis including [[Conservapedia]]. They have attacked Conservapedia in the following manners | ||
*Fighting and picking fights; | *Fighting and picking fights; | ||
*Trying to remove content; | *Trying to remove content; | ||
*Adding content that portrays Liberals as something other than Evil Incarnate; | |||
*Blanking pages, including pages of admins; | *Blanking pages, including pages of admins; | ||
*Using foul language against other editors; | *Using foul language against other editors; | ||
*Showing outright contempt for the site, conservatism in general, Christianity, and family values; | *Showing outright contempt for the site, conservatism in general, Christianity, and family values; | ||
*The insertion of objectionable content, such as porn images and links to porn sites; | *The insertion of objectionable content, such as porn images and links to porn sites; | ||
*Lying, by either including deliberately false article content, or lying in their own conduct; | *Lying, by either including deliberately false article content, suggesting that Conservatives might not be divine beings of immaculate virtue, or lying in their own conduct; | ||
*Vandalism and cyber-terrorist tactics. | *Vandalism and cyber-terrorist tactics. Because making malicious edits to a webpage that can be reverted with a single click is the moral equivalent of car-bombing. | ||
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On RationalWiki | On RationalWiki | ||
*Many of the users hold Religion in contempt, they often criticize Christianity, conservativism, family values, pro-life, etc. | *Many of the users hold Fundamentalist Religion in contempt, they often criticize Christianity, conservativism, family values, pro-life, etc. | ||
*Many of the admins insult religion on their user pages | *Many of the admins insult religion on their user pages | ||
*Many users at RationalWiki will remove factual material, even if backed up by sources, from articles, which are supposed to unoffically express a liberal point of views for example see http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Liberal&curid=935&diff=202920&oldid=202917 | *Many users at RationalWiki will remove factual material, even if backed up by sources, from articles, which are supposed to unoffically express a liberal point of views for example see http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Liberal&curid=935&diff=202920&oldid=202917 | ||