Oh man
Sites like this http://www.conservapedia.com/Water make me want to cry. It is a religious fundamentalist response to the Wikipedia site which they call "liberal" (read: educated). The site owners call it Conservapedia but that seems to be code for "third grade / no grade education level".
Along with the childish or blatantly wrong entries sometimes the site uses really OLD sources (1913 for the water entry above) to support it's "definition". Notice that all the prominent citations for evolution (http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution) are all from 2001 or before. Sorry honey, but anything more than a year or two is generally out-of-date in the science world. Get with the times (and reality). Grrr. I cannot believe this site is billing itself as education reference material.
I think before I teach my (real) science class I will go have a little cry in the bathroom.
The site was brought to my attention by a great blogger. Visit his blog. http://thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/
Along with the childish or blatantly wrong entries sometimes the site uses really OLD sources (1913 for the water entry above) to support it's "definition". Notice that all the prominent citations for evolution (http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution) are all from 2001 or before. Sorry honey, but anything more than a year or two is generally out-of-date in the science world. Get with the times (and reality). Grrr. I cannot believe this site is billing itself as education reference material.
I think before I teach my (real) science class I will go have a little cry in the bathroom.
The site was brought to my attention by a great blogger. Visit his blog. http://thedisgruntled.blogspot.com/
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