In April 2007, Peter Lipson, a doctor of internal medicine, attempted to edit Conservapedia's article on breast cancer to include evidence against Conservapedia's claim that abortion was linked to the disease. Conservapedia is an encyclopedia started by Andy Schlafly as an alternative to Wikipedia, which he perceived as suffering from liberal and atheist bias. Schlafly and Conservapedia administrators "questioned [Lipson's] credentials and shut down debate." After they were blocked, "Lipson and several other contributors quit trying to moderate the articles [on Conservapedia] and instead started their own website, RationalWiki."[7]
"Just how irrational can Rational Wiki get? Cambridge University Press, the oldest publishing house in the world (and one of the most respected), is described as "a garbage publisher." -- @a_centrism on Twitter, 25. Oct, 2019
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