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: David_Gerard 23 February 2011 03:25:29PM -1 points [-]

This is a good start, but on Conservapedia "liberal" and "liberalism" are pretty much local jargon and their meanings have departed the normative usages in the real world. It is not overstating the case to say that Schlafly uses "liberal" to mean pretty much anything he doesn't like.