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		<title>Conservapedia Shifts Focus From Homosexuals To Atheists?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, Boing Boing posted a list of the ten most viewed articles on Conservapedia. At first blush, it looked as though Conservapedia&#8217;s fundie, creationist right-wing community was obsessed with homosexuality. While that may be true, it was soon postulated at Infothought and Crooked Timber that there was something fishy about the stats (make sure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://40yearoldatheist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/atheism-conservapedia.jpg'><img src="http://40yearoldatheist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/atheism-conservapedia-260x300.jpg" alt="" title="atheism-conservapedia" width="260" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-26" /></a>In  November, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net">Boing Boing</a> posted a list of the <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/21/top-ten-most-viewed.html">ten most viewed articles</a> on <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page">Conservapedia</a>.</p>
<p>At first blush, it looked as though Conservapedia&#8217;s fundie, creationist right-wing community was obsessed with homosexuality. While that may be true, it was soon postulated at <a href="http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001282.html">Infothought</a> and <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2007/11/21/by-their-fruits-shall-ye-know-them/">Crooked Timber</a> that there was something fishy about the stats (make sure you read the comments).</p>
<p>Out of curiousity, I <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Statistics">checked</a> and found that <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism">Atheism</a> is currently Conservapedia&#8217;s number one hit (click at left for a larger image of the stats).</p>
<p>Like the homosexuality case, there could be a number of different reasons for this:</p>
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<li>it might be another bot prank</li>
<li>it might be due to the success of Conservapedia&#8217;s <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Public_Awareness_of_the_Atheism_Article">atheism awareness campaign</a></li>
<li>it might be the atheist community&#8217;s obsession with itself</li>
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<p>Thoughts?</p>
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