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Our purpose here at RationalWiki includes:

1. Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement.
2. Analyzing and refuting crank ideas.
3. Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism.

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The folks who create Conservapedia's "content" sometimes go off in fascinating directions other than the usual relentless attacks against anything that doesn't fit their strange, right-wing fundamentalist mindset.

In the case of articles relating to science and math, Conservapedia's charter is often less than clear. Their front page seems to specify "educational, clean, and concise entries", and states that it "is rapidly becoming one of the largest and most reliable online educational resources of its kind."^[1]

But guess what? They despoil mathematics just as much as they do history, economics, and, well, anything else they touch.

The general state of affairs

Students in school (including the much-beloved home-schooled ones) seem to be interested in mathematics and science, so Conservapedia ..→ read the entire article

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Article of the Weak: Serpent Space Gods Who Use Numerology and Crop Circles

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