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Conservapedia

My responses in Red Examples of Bias in Wikipedia From Conservapedia Jump to: navigation, search The following is a growing list of examples of liberal bias, deceit, frivolous gossip, and blatant errors on Wikipedia. 1. Conservapedia posted the news about liberal corruption of global warming science (climategate) on its Main Page on the very first day: November 19th. But it took Wikipedia over two weeks to give priority to this bombshell, and even now its entry is remarkably biased against it.[1] Unsurprisingly, Wikipedia does not automatically cowtow to the whims of conservapedia. As I have not read Wikipedia's take on the controversy, I cannot comment on the assertion of bias either way. If one chooses to use the word "remarkably", one would expect remarks to follow. 2. Isaac Newton translated parts of the Bible, and considered this effort to be the source of his scientific insights, yet Wikipedia's 10,000-word entry completely omits this.[2] If Newton's re

Big, small and indifferent

I wouldn't qualify working in "the bigs" as a total disaster.. professionally. However one of the biggest disasters to happen to a large organization like the one I work for happened a bit ago, a news making, lawsuit generating, fuck all snafu. So I've entered the world of job candidacy again, going on interviews, proving my worth, etc. Going to interviews is a chore no matter how you slice it. After what I've been through, it's damn well like pulling teeth. Let me explain. I can't go to a single interview without answering the uncomfortable question "so.. I see you work at XXXXXX.. I read about that on Gizmodo (or insert other tech blog here).. so, what was that all about?" To add insult to injury, I'm expected to answer all kinds of hypothetical questions, solve problems, etc -- the usual interview stuff -- knowing that the interviewer knows about the complete breakdown of the service that I in part was charged with the care of. It's hu