[BRIEF NOTE] Conservapedia on the false, liberal theory of relativity

[rfmcdonald]

Conservapedia's article on the theory of relativity, I discovered via Chris Mooney at The Intersection, is dominated by the thesis that general relativity is basically a fraud, supported by big-government science and liberals. Yes, really. Joe Hamm at Climate Progress had great fun with this.

Yes, there is a Conservapedia and its main benefit to society is that it apparently occupies the time of the great many conservatives who post meticulously-footnoted articles like the one above, titled, “Counterexamples to Relativity.”

It is hard to know what is the most mind-boggling thing about this particular article. Footnote 1 reads:

See, e.g., historian Paul Johnson’s book about the 20th century, and the article written by liberal law professor Laurence Tribe as allegedly assisted by Barack Obama. Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold.

Really? The Bible outsells The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by a hundred-fold? Well then it must be literally true word-for-word. That’s how we know, for instance, that the Sun moves around the Earth. But still, I am puzzled how this is a counter example:

The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.

You can click on the second link to read the story in the conservative translation of the Bible – didn’t know there was a conservative translation, did you, ye of little ideological faith?

Newton's theories, it seems, are all that are needed.

What is with movement conservatives and their love of pseudo-science, apart from the obvious possibility that they love having their beliefs confirmed?