David_Gerard comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 February 2011 09:54:11AM 3 points [-]

(To use one of the possibly more amusing examples, look at Conservapedia's labeling of the complex numbers and the axiom of choice as products of liberal ideology.)

Looked for it, didn't find it. Links: Axiom of Choice. Complex Number.

Comment author: David_Gerard 23 February 2011 03:17:55PM 0 points [-]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Conservapedian_mathematics

If you are foolish enough to want to comprehend the strangeness of Conservapedia, RationalWiki is the place to go.

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