The Obamacare Evaluation Project: Cost

Medical Progress Report No. 14 March 2013 RHETORIC AND REALITY

The Obamacare Evaluation Project: Cost

Paul Howard, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Yevgeniy Feyman, Research Associate, Manhattan Institute

Project Description

President Barack Obama’s first term was defined by the battle over, and the passage of, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the landmark health-reform legislation known popularly as Obamacare. Along the way, Obama, the law’s supporters, and independent analysts such as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) made specific claims or projections about how the law would affect consumers, patients, and businesses.

Now, three years after Obamacare’s passage, many key provisions of the legislation are beginning to be implemented. Whether implementation succeeds or fails will be strongly influenced by the reactions of states, providers, insurers, businesses, and consumers to the law’s provisions and to the thousands of pages of new health-care regulations.

Rhetoric and Reality is a project of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress designed to offer an ongoing, objective, and accessible perspective on the law’s performance in light of key claims or projections made about it. Our project will examine the law’s effect on Americans in five overarching areas: health-care costs, insurance coverage, employment, access to care, and consumer-driven health plans. Additional topics may be added.

Each evaluation will be based on the best available data and will be revised as new or more authoritative data become available. Each evaluation will come with a letter “grade” on the law’s performance, using the following scale:

A = Very strong likelihood that the reforms will achieve their intended goals

B = Moderate evidence that the reforms will achieve their intended goals but a need for future analysis

C = Weak evidence that reforms will achieve their intended goals or growing evidence of unintended
consequences

D = Little or no evidence that the reforms will achieve their intended goals and significant evidence of unintended consequences

F = Undeniable evidence that the reforms will produce effects contrary to their intended goals

I (Incomplete) = Insufficient evidence to support a final judgment on the effects of the reforms

About the Authors

Paul Howard is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and director of the Institute’s Center for Medical Progress. He is also the managing editor of Medical Progress Today, a web magazine devoted to chronicling the relationship between private sector investment, biomedical innovation, market-friendly public policies, and improved health. Howard writes on a wide variety of health policy issues, including medical malpractice, reform of the Food and Drug Administration, and Medicare initiatives. He is often quoted on health-care issues, and his columns have appeared in national publications, including the New York Post, Dallas Morning News, Investor’s Business Daily, and WashingtonPost.com. He is also a member of the Manhattan Institute’s Project FDA, a committee of physician-scientists, economists, medical ethicists, and policy experts whose purpose is to show how twenty-first century technologies can help improve FDA regulations and accelerate the drug-development and drug-approval process without sacrificing safety. Howard received a Ph.D. in political science from Fordham University in New York City in 2003, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Yevgeniy Feyman is a Manhattan Institute research associate providing research and analysis on health care and energy policy. He blogs on health care and entitlement reform at MedicalProgressToday.com, and has written for National Review Online, The Washington Times, and FOXNews.com. Feyman holds a degree in economics and political science from Hunter College.

Introduction

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was described to the American public not only as a means of expanding coverage but as a way of holding down spending on health care. As President Obama told the Washington Post in 2009, “I think it’s important for us to make sure that 46 million people who don’t have health insurance get it. And I think it’s important for us to bend the cost curve, separate and apart from coverage issues, just because the system we have right now is unsustainable and hugely inefficient and uncompetitive.”[1]

As of this writing, important parts of the law have not gone into effect (in particular, the coverage provision). The administration has nonetheless remained adamant (based on CBO estimates dating back to 2009) that the law will create substantial savings in the health-care system. Examining some preliminary data that include projections by independent, nonpartisan experts allows us to test the president’s claims that Obamacare will lower U.S. health-care costs. Based on analysis of the available data, we project that Obamacare will increase U.S. health-care spending and will not lower health-care costs.

Health-Care Premiums

Monthly health-insurance premiums are calculated based on actuarial predictions of an individual’s risk of requiring medical care. For instance, all other things being equal, premiums—the amounts charged for insurance coverage—will be higher for the elderly than for the young, as the elderly tend to have more health problems than do the young. Premiums are effectively the canary in the health-care coal mine because they take into account not just the actual cost of care but also state and federal taxes, politically mandated coverage requirements, and how many sick or healthy people purchase insurance. As these underlying costs change, insurance premiums change with them.

The American health-care system is dominated by so-called third-party payers (i.e., an organization other than the patient or a health-care provider that actually pays for health-care services when they are rendered). Usually, the third party is an insurance company or the government. As a result, individuals often conflate the cost of their insurance premiums with the cost of their health care—that is, as a person’s premiums rise, so will his perception that his health care is becoming more expensive and vice versa (regardless of whether that is true). Because of this, we focus first on premiums paid directly by households, not on premiums paid by either an employer or by the government.

As it turns out, since the passage of Obamacare, household premiums have increased by a full 11.3 percent. Moreover, this increase even outpaced the rate of the medical services consumer price index (CPI), which netted a mere 6.8 percent increase over the three years that we measure.[3] The CPI is the commonly used measure of inflation; the medical services CPI measures the growth in prices of medical services.

Independent analysis also suggests that this trend will not slow down anytime soon. In 2012, the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that by 2016, employer-based family coverage will cost $20,000, with varying amounts of minimum required contribution based on family size and income.[4] This will be an increase of $4,255 from 2012’s total family premium of roughly $15,745—a 27 percent jump.[5]

Looking further down the road, per-enrollee household private health-insurance premiums are projected to rise steadily through the rest of Obamacare’s implementation (2013–21), with the exception of a brief dip in 2014. (The dip is related to a one-time shift in costs from individuals to the government because people purchasing insurance on insurance exchanges will, on average, pay less of the cost because of federal premium subsidies. This drags down the average premium increase for households, but the costs will be borne by the federal government, i.e., taxpayers.)

A recent survey of insurance companies by the American Action Forum, a think tank, found that key Obamacare reforms will likely cause significant premium increases, particularly for young and healthy policyholders, and that much of these increases will be unrelated to the expansion of benefits under the law. Other elements in the law, including smaller rating bands (limits to how much more insurance companies can charge older enrollees than younger ones) and prohibitions on gender and health-status rating (sicker enrollees also cannot be charged more) contribute significantly to future projected premium increases.[7] The projected increase in private health-insurance premiums is likely even to outstrip increases in medical inflation over ten years, further indicating that Obamacare is driving up insurance premiums beyond the price of individual health-care services. For instance, because Obamacare requires a richer benefit package in the individual and small-group markets and adds new taxes on drugs, insurance companies, and medical devices, along with new subsidies for buying health insurance, Obamacare will, on average, place upward pressures on premium prices.[8]

Health-Care Spending

It is often remarked that health-care spending in the United States is out of line with countries that have similar, advanced economies. This, coupled with reports of hundreds of billions of dollars in estimated annual waste, means that careful attention should be given to reforming the U.S.’s level of health-care spending and “bending the curve” of its growth rate.

Today, Americans spend well over $2 trillion—close to 18 percent of GDP—on health care, and U.S. health-care costs have grown much faster than either income or GDP growth over the last several decades. However, despite the best intentions of its supporters, Obamacare will not make much of a dent in these trends. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that between 2012 and 2021, America will spend $36.8 trillion on health care. Absent Obamacare, CMS estimates that spending would be $36.3 trillion—a difference of just $500 billion over ten years. In other words, without Obamacare, Americans would spend less on health care.

Obamacare does little to actually stem spending growth, aside from some relatively small pilot projects on reimbursement reform that have had disappointing results thus far, either producing some savings but also some cost increases, or increasing outright health-care spending. For instance, the implementation of electronic health records has, thus far, not only failed to decrease health-care spending but seems to have increased it by making it easier for providers to bill for additional services.

In fact, the largest components of estimated deficit savings in CBO projections related to Obamacare come from revenue increases rather than actual decreases in U.S. health-care spending. As noted earlier, the law shifts health-care costs from individuals to government, with the overarching goal of reducing the share of health-care spending borne by low- and middle-income uninsured consumers. The problem is that evidence strongly suggests that when out-of-pocket spending is lower, health-care spending actually rises.[9] In fact, American consumers spend less on out-of-pocket costs than most of their advanced Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) competitors.

If we examine per-capita health-care spending across a number of OECD countries, we see a significant correlation between out-of-pocket spending as a share of total health-care spending and the level of per-capita health-care spending. This explains about 30 percent of cross-country variation in 2010, suggesting that in order to “bend the cost curve” of health-care spending, more out-of-pocket spending may be needed in the form of deductibles, co-pays, and cost-sharing for routine expenses. In other words, consumers must become more cost-conscious.

Critics may rightfully point out that Figure 4 is incomplete: if we compare actual out-of-pocket spending per capita (rather than the share of total) with total spending per capita (including the share covered by government and insurance companies), it appears as if more out-of-pocket spending is associated with higher, not lower, health-care costs. The issue with this approach is that the causal direction is not clear—that is, we already know that the U.S. spends more both overall and on a per-capita basis. Therefore, it is likely that an increase in actual per-capita spending will also increase actual out-of-pocket per-capita spending. The reverse is certainly possible—that increasing per-capita out-of-pocket spending will increase total per-capita spending—but intuitively, it seems unlikely. Many other studies, for instance, have found that increasing out-of-pocket costs reduces the use of health-care goods and services, serving as a check on spending.[10]

What we do know—again, from cross-country comparison (and this casts some doubt on the potential criticism earlier)—is that the out-of-pocket spending share of total health-care spending is strongly, and negatively, correlated with health-care spending as a share of GDP, a measure that is, in essence, the burden of health-care spending on the economy.

One may, however, criticize this approach on moral grounds by claiming that the poor and indigent should be protected from rising health-care costs. Of course, some means-tested subsidies, such as Obamacare’s premium subsidies, are desirable (and indeed, are used in countries such as Switzerland), but Obamacare provides these subsidies far above the poverty line—for families who make up to 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, or about $94,000 for a family of four in 2014.[11] This means that the subsidies will be going to people who may not actually need them because they could easily afford to buy their own coverage.

When consumers are less cost-conscious (in this case, because they pay fewer direct medical costs), producers have greater freedom to raise prices while consumers have an incentive to utilize additional health-care services.

Consequently, increases in the costs of medical services have consistently been greater than cost increases in the rest of the economy. To combat this trend, policymakers should focus on finding ways of making most nonpoor consumers more cost-conscious rather than less cost-conscious. By focusing on cutting out-of-pocket spending—which is projected to fall from around 11 percent of total health-care spending today, to 9.3 percent by 2021[12]—Obamacare does little to stem the growth in medical prices and may, in fact, accelerate some price increases by reducing price sensitivity and increasing demand for health services by bringing the newly insured population into the market.

Obamacare will also push about 12 million Americans into Medicaid. This joint federal-state health-insurance program for the poor is a huge and growing budget concern: it will spend some $638 billion in federal dollars over 11 years to expand coverage to the 12 million new beneficiaries. By 2023, the federal government will be spending $572 billion annually on the program; state spending will bring the spending to about $1 trillion. Because access to care in the program is spotty, it is questionable whether expanding it is worth the massive investment, given the growing share of the budget that the program makes up.[13]

Ultimately, all the existing evidence suggests that Obamacare will not reduce health-care costs, although it will certainly shift the cost burden to the government (which is ultimately the responsibility of taxpayers) as well as other, non-health-related industries. And while we don’t address the costs of Medicaid spending in this report, the cost of expanding Medicaid—for state and federal budgets—is another important concern that policymakers should bear in mind.

Obamacare’s Grade on Controlling

Health-Care Costs: C

Since the mid-1980s, medical inflation has outpaced all other inflation by an ever-increasing margin. While many factors play into this phenomenon, Obamacare fails to address the drivers of excessive and continuous price increases for medical goods and services. By shifting costs to government and taxpayers and by increasing overall U.S. health-care spending, Obamacare will, by its own standards, fail to control health-care costs.

Proponents of the law have pointed to the CBO’s February 2013 budget outlook as evidence that the law is already reducing costs, particularly for Medicare. In the updated outlook, the CBO did revise downward its estimated spending for Medicare from 2013 to 2022 by $137 billion. However, 75 percent of that revision comes from Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, Part D.[14] There is no reason to think that the Part D savings stem from Obamacare. For one thing, actual Part D spending has been about 30 percent below CBO’s original projections. More important, Obamacare actually expands the Part D benefit (and increases spending relative to what it would be otherwise) by requiring manufacturers to issue rebates to cover branded drugs through the infamous “doughnut hole.”

Obamacare does attempt several payment reforms and initiates a number of pilot programs.[15] For instance, to deal with the disproportionately large share of Medicaid spending by dual-eligibles (those who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare), CMS has started the Financial Alignment Initiative, which places dual-eligibles into a private managed-care program to improve care coordination and outcomes.

Other attempts at cost control include the implementation of payment reform projects designed to get doctors and hospitals focused on delivering health care more efficiently and improving health outcomes for patients, rather than simply maximizing payments for the services they provide. Specifically, Obamacare seeks to increase outcome-based care in Medicare through the use of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs allow providers who can offer better outcomes at lower costs to “share in the savings” with the federal government. The evidence on ACOs, however, is mixed—a CMS pilot project from 2005 to 2010 failed to consistently show significant savings.[16] ACOs also present antitrust concerns as well; if they encourage greater hospital consolidation, which seems to be the case, then reduced competition may stymie any downward pressures on costs from bundled payments. Because we do not yet know how these programs and other initiatives will ultimately play out, there is a possibility that the ACA’s efforts may yet result in modest savings; but at this juncture, that appears unlikely.

As such, we give Obamacare’s cost-cutting efforts a grade:

C = Weak evidence that reforms will achieve their intended goals or growing evidence of unintended consequence

As these programs and other evidence develop on Obamacare’s effect on health-care costs, we will update our findings appropriately.

Endnotes

Washington Post, July 22, 2009.

A minor data issue concerns the combined use of MEPS and EHBS data. In recent years, EHBS data have shown higher absolute numbers for employee contributions but slower rates of increase. MEPS data have shown the reverse. We consider MEPS to be a more robust data source and one that is more nationally representative, given the state-by-state breakdowns; thus, where possible, we defer to MEPS data. Year 2012 data were projected for MEPS by using the ten-year average ratio (MEPS/EHBS) to project MEPS data for 2012 based on existing 2012 EHBS data.

U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, and author’s calculations, based on the urban CPI for medical care.

Congressional Budget Office, “CBO and JCT’s Estimates of the Effects of the Affordable Care Act on the Number of People Obtaining Employment-Based Health Insurance,” March 2012, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/03-15-ACA_and_Insurance_2.pdf.

Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust, “Employer Health Benefits, 2012 Annual Survey,” http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/2012/8345.pdf. Using Kaiser’s numbers gives a smaller potential increase than the results we would have seen using the estimating methodology from n. 2 above.

These numbers are not completely comparable with the numbers for average employee contributions, but they still represent an important element of rising health-care costs. They are calculated as household private health-insurance premiums divided by enrollment in employer-sponsored insurance, other private health insurance, and exchanges. These numbers include Medicare supplemental coverage (which is less expensive than full insurance coverage) and thus may understate increases. Additionally, these numbers do not include out-of-pocket spending, such as deductibles. The drop in 2014 likely indicates a shift to premium subsidies for the exchanges.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, “Insurance Premiums in 2014 and the Affordable Care Act: Survey Evidence,” American Action Forum, January 2013,
http://americanactionforum.org/sites/default/files/AAF_Premiums_and_ACA_Survey.pdf.

The ten-year (2003–12) historical difference between overall inflation (CPI) and medical inflation (Medical Care CPI) is 1.4 percentage points. The 2012 Medicare Trustees report assumes an average 2.8 percent CPI increase over ten years. CMS’s projection for ten-year per-enrollee private health-insurance premiums is an average increase of 4.7 percent. If the historical difference holds, this means that medical inflation should increase at an annual average of 4.2 percent (over ten years). Thus, private insurance premiums should increase at an average of 0.5 percentage points greater than medical inflation (4.7 – 4.2 = 0.5). Note that this assumes that medical inflation will be greater than its ten-year historical average (2003–12) of 3.9 percent. Last, the CBO’s latest projections estimate an annual CPI increase significantly less than 2.8 percent. By using a greater number for CPI (from Medicare’s Trustees), we may understate the difference between medical inflation and insurance-premium-cost growth.

A recent study by the RAND Corporation looked at the impact of high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) on health-care spending. HDHPs increase the out-of-pocket share borne by consumers—the findings indicate that use of HDHPs results in lower health-care spending; see American Journal of Managed Care 17, no. 3 (March 2011): 222–30. Previous studies also confirmed that consumers are very price-sensitive when choosing health-insurance plans; see http://www.nber.org/reporter/summer06/buchmueller.html.

Gary Robbins, Aldona Robbins, and John Goodman, “Inefficiency in the U.S. Health-Care System: What Can We Do?,” April 1994, http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st182.pdf; and Rand Health Insurance Experiment, http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9174/index1.html.

See http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/13poverty.cfm.

CMS’s National Health Expenditure Projections, Table 16, Household Out-of-Pocket Expenditures,
http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/Downloads/Proj2011PDF.pdf.

Future Medicaid spending is somewhat difficult to gauge; according to CMS, the program’s per-enrollee costs are greater than those of private insurance. However, this includes the elderly and disabled, who utilize health services at a greater rate. Comparing per-enrollee costs for Medicaid with private insurance may indicate that Medicaid is more “efficient”; however, this efficiency comes at the cost of access to care, due to reduced reimbursements to providers.

See CBO, “March 2012 Medicare Baseline,” http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43060_Medicare.pdf; “February 2013 Medicare Baseline,” http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43894_Medicare2.pdf; and “The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013–2023,” http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43907-BudgetOutlook.pdf.

Some pilot programs, such as the effort to increase efficiency by adopting electronic health records, have not been very successful.

Cola et al., “Spending Differences Associated with the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration,” Journal of the American Medical Association (September 2012): 1015–23.

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News update from a Question evolution! campaign blog: "May 15, 2013 was a very BAD day for Darwinism!"[86]

Also, as of today, a Question evolution! blog received 427,864 page views.

A major supply line to Darwinism just suffered a major reversal - college bubble is finally bursting. The infrastructure of Darwinism, atheism, agnosticism and liberalism is crumbling.[87]

Like many second term presidents, Barack Hussein Obama is having scandals arise and he is losing control of events.[88]

A new theory of why secularization occurs.[89]

Liberal politics = massive financial disaster for many California cities, with more bankruptcies expected. [90]

When you have RINOs in the way of real reform, primary them! [91]

The IRS scandal now includes nine Senators, and a liberal outfit that got sensitive information from the IRS on 31 conservative groups. Time for a serious look at tax reform: why do we even need an IRS? [92]

Al Gore still hypes his liberal alarmism: "Our very way of life" is at stake, he insists, "now more than ever before." [93] So why did he sell his TV station for big profits to Big Oil??

The "creationist blogspot squint" repeatedly defeats a timid agnostic and evolutionist who is afraid of debating the creationist biology student VivaYehshua. [94]

An evolutionist has been wildly swinging his rhetorical punches into the air, but he has been hitting thin air. Why is he so afraid of debating VivaYehshua?

Obama, Tyranny, and the Tax Man [95]

Drunken atheist Trekkie makes a bigger fool of himself. Yes, there is something lamer than an atheist who threatens a Bible believer with hellfire.[96]

5 things that will give atheists ulcers.[97]

What "Dr." Kermit Gosnell did in his house-of-horrors clinic is not an anomaly in the abortion industry; it is practice. [98]

A Tea Party activist writes an open letter to State legislators who vote away Second Amendment rights. [99]

PZ Myers, how will we know when atheism has a full-blown nerd crisis? [100]

Myers recently said that atheism is on the "cusp of crisis." Is there a full-blown atheist nerd crisis?

Atheist wiki continues to lose global market share. Also, many of their atheist nerd editors still lose ladies to creationist men![101]

The media already in bed with Obama simply cannot ignore this new scandal: The Obama Administration secretly seized phone records from the Associated Press just prior to the 2012 election. [102][103]

The chilly spring continues to prove the hoax of global warming: "Protect those plants, widespread chance of frost and freeze in N.J. tonight." [104]

Kermit Gosnell stands convicted. But how many others share his guilt? Mainstream Media, maybe? [105]

The scandal at the IRS gets wider every time. This could be the biggest scandal of all. [106]

"Orde Wingate and the Night Raiders: Bring 'em He...Heaven" by Bishop Bert [107]

Another amazing breakthrough for Adult stem cells: Growing Teeth. [108] Still no breakthroughs for immoral Embryonic stem cells.

The IRS is now caught red-handed, in targeting conservative, Tea Party, and pro-Israel groups – and lying about it. But did the Obama administration throw out this chum to distract people from the Benghazi affair? [109]

The homosexual agenda is being pushed into the immigration bill, and it is likely that Dems will cave to the gay demands. [110]

"Sergio Garcia rips Tiger Woods," observing that "he's not the nicest guy on tour." Yet the liberal media continue to cover for Woods, and even lash into Garcia for criticizing him. [111]

Talking animals in the Old Testament. Also, does Leviticus mention dinosaurs?[112]

5 truths that cause evolutionists and atheists to fly into uncontrollable bursts of rage. [113]

Is their anything more lame than an atheist threatening a Bible believer with hellfire?

5 reasons why Christian evangelism is more thoughtful and effective than Darwinist and atheist evangelism efforts. [114]

7 reasons why the growth prospects of the egotistical, socially challenged, atheist nerd population is bleak.[115]

We knew it all along, and now the Internal Revenue Service admits: the IRS plays favorites among applicants for tax exemptions. And a few "un-favorites" besides. [116]

A Tea Party activist asks: did Barack Obama and his administration commit manslaughter and obstruction of justice in the Benghazi affair? [117]

Sociologists say that the American Christian Right are the potters and American atheists are the clay. Also, get three coffins ready. [118]

The families of several Navy SEALs killed in action reveal some stunning – and criminal – acts by the Obama administration. [119]

The Benghazi affair blows up in the Obama administration's collective face. ABC News admits: the State Department sanitized what the CIA told them about it. The White House squirms. [120]

Andrew Schlafly speaks out against ObamaCare.[121]

Is the unborn child a person? What do the obstetricians think?[122]

Atheist wiki hit the socially challenged, atheist nerd ceiling! Their global market share has fallen in 2013.[123]

Christian winners vs. atheist losers. Who is going to win? [124]

The latest in ultrasound technology will benefit the Pro-life cause: 3-D holograms of children in the womb. [125]

A two front war on atheism? [126]

Are biblical creationists picking up the pace of their evangelism?[127]

Is a pack of ravenous biblical creation dire wolves on the prowl ripping big chunks of meat out of their Darwinist bunkum prey?

CBS News doesn't like one of its own making a thorough investigation into the Benghazi affair: [128]

Let's see how liberal pro-choicers spin this absolute insanity: [129]

Cal Thomas writes about the taxation of internet sales and the Marketplace Fairness Act bill being proposed. [130]

Violent video games, which liberal websites defend and promote despite the games' obvious connection with the Newtown massacre, continue to rack up billion-dollar profits. [131]

Ruth Bell Graham once said that if God does not judge America, He must apologize to Sodom. Apart from whether a man (or woman) can judge God, Mrs. Graham had a point. [132]

3 humorous creation vs. evolution events. [133]

Liberal "psychic" Sylvia Browne, the perennial guest of the Montel Williams Show, predicted in 2004 that Amanda Berry was dead. Yet she clams up after Amanda is rescued from a house of horror a couple days ago. [134]

Uh oh, liberal claptrap at HuffPost is not so great after all for AOL: "AOL Inc. (AOL), the digital publisher that owns the Huffington Post and TechCrunch, fell the most in five months after reporting first-quarter profit that missed estimates." [135]

The biblical creation attack dog is metamorphosizing into a fierce and tenacious dire wolf predator. Darwinism will be ripped to shreds. [136]

WHat does "honoring the office" of President of the United States mean, when the current officeholder behaves dishonorably? Theodore Roosevelt had an answer. [137]

Does Barack Obama love being a "divider-in-chief"? Or has he laid a deeper plan? A Tea Party activist examines all the actions of this de facto President and sees an ominous parallel. [138]

Will the Benghazi attack hearings change the game for Barack Obama? Or for Hillary Clinton? [139]

Liberal double standard, as they held Mitt Romney to a different standard than Al Gore, despite how the global warming alarmist Gore is now richer than Romney.[140]

Thomas Paine once made a ringing call to leadership. Where are the conservative leaders of today? [141]

"The 'House of David': Don't be quick to fault the Bible!" by Bishop Bert [142]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from "blunt trauma to his head and torso," presumably by being driven over by his own fleeing brother. [143] Yet still no word about drugs that were likely found in pot-smoker Dzhokhar's system.

Is school choice impossible in some States? Only if the voters let it stay that way. [144]

If you are not a biblical creationist, you are behaving illogically.[145]

"Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic". - Evolutionist Dr. Scott Todd [146]

Naturalistic/atheistic thinkers, no matter how much they would like to think that it has lasted forever, inevitably come up against the fact that the very laws of the universe point to a supernatural beginning.[147]

Notice that the arguments for evolution amount to logical fallacy—and censorship, not true science. [148]

RINO Backer "Paul Ryan flip-flops, now supports gay adoption." [149] The Republican House leadership moves closer to quietly accepting same-sex marriage.

A Tea Party activist does some sober stock-taking on the battle for American liberty. [150]

Liberals will continue making billions by invading people's privacy, and block a California bill that would have protected the public: "Silicon Valley uses growing clout to kill a digital privacy bill." [151]

Traitors among us, in the United States Senate, who voted for the UN Arms Trade Treaty (which failed – so far). [152]

Overrated Sports Star "Kobe Bryant in court battle with mother over memorabilia." [153] His mother has been paying $1,500/mth to store it, but now the liberal-promoted player tries to stop his own mom from cashing in!

Record-setting May snowstorm blankets several states, further disproving the liberal hoax that there is a crisis of global warming. [154]

Free speech for Christianity wins, and Mikey Weinstein loses. The Pentagon announced today that service members will not be punished for sharing their religious faith. "Members of our military should not be denied the very freedoms they fight to defend. Freedom of religion and speech are paramount among those freedoms," said ADF Legal Counsel Joseph La Rue. [155]

"How to Not stone a Rebellious Son: Reforming according to the Word of God" by Bishop Bert [156]

After Barack Hussein Obama invoked God at a Planned Parenthood event, an activist sharply reminds him: had Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, had her way, he would not exist. [157]

The Ides of May 2013 is definitely going to be nightmare for evolutionists.[158]

British Darwinists, brace yourselves for the grand announcement of May 15, 2013 to be given at 5:00pm Greenwich Mean Time. You will not want to miss it!

A hate-filled atheist wants Christians stopped from sharing the Gospel in the military, under penalty of court-martial for "sedition and treason". [159] Could this be what Obama wants done? [160]

Theistic evolutionists are sleeping with the enemy and getting "fleas of doubt".[161] Leading theistic evolutionist says: "My belief in God is tinged with doubts...".

The New York Times says that the pro-evolution website Wikipedia has a sexism problem. Is there a nerd crisis at Wikipedia?[162]

Compare Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama side by side. Who is the elitist? [163]

Return of the Twinkies - No, they're not the flying monkeys from "The Wizard of Oz." The Hostess company is going back in business, after union demands forced them into bankruptcy last year. (WashTimes)

Which country was among those which tied for last place as being among the most corrupt countries in the world? An atheism and evolution loving country of course - North Korea.[164]

Give it up, liberals: "Arizona lawmakers pass bill making silver, gold legal tender." [165]

Young people love anti-evolution and pro-creation tracts, magazines and books. Darwinism indoctrination is stale and boring. [166]

The NFL has become just another politically correct, liberal organization, as it ostracizes the outspokenly Christian Tim Tebow. Why should the public approve paying for NFL stadiums, as in the upcoming vote in Miami?

Is the soul of America in jeopardy? Why is the military cleaning itself of Judeo-Christian influence? [167]

Obama administration threatening Benghazi whistleblowers (Washington Times, April 30, 2013)

Three of the Doolittle Raiders hold their last reunion on the base where they trained. [168]

Olé! Olé! Olé! Hispanic American creationism is winning mucho battles over Hispanic American Darwinism.[169]

Evolutionists, you will have a lot of splainin' to do on why you can't answer the 15 questions for evolutionists satisfactorily.

Time magazine reports that theological liberalism gained ground during sexual revolution, but conservative Christians are winning now through higher procreation and re-evangelization of West.[170]

Victory! Liberals are now openly admitting defeat! And they have no plan to turn things around!

China's atheist leaders are still panicking and trying to use heavy-handed measures to stop the explosive growth of Chinese Christianity.[171]

A fascinating look at an area in China with 70,000 hills from a global flood perspective.[172]

Liberal global warming scam is proven false, again: "more than 1,100 snowfall records and 3,400 cold records have been set across the nation so far in April." [173] That's not the global warming crisis that Al Gore and other liberals claimed.

Why won't the Republican Party of New Jersey even adopt the national Republican platform? A Tea Party activists sounds a RINO alert. [174]

Volunteers spent thousands of dollars on a successful Question evolution! campaign event and pro-biblical creation outreach. [175]

Kermit Gosnell's trial may go to the jury this week. But does he really do anything that abortion advocates would not want to see done? [176]

"Man stabs 4 choir members during Sunday mass at Albuquerque Catholic church." [177] It's unfortunate that parishioners did not have loaded guns to stop the stranger.

More bad news for liberals, pro-aborts and Darwinists - religioustolerance.org has lost a LOT of web traffic![178]

Why do people still believe what Barack Obama says? [179]

The ricin letters case has taken a strange new twist. Previous suspect (a Democrat) cleared; current suspect (a Republican) charged. Is there a personal feud between the two? [180]

Give it up, liberals: Kansas has the most conservative legislature in its history, and it's not going back to its "moderate", less successful past. [181]

A call back to God for Christians of every stripe, after the Boston Marathon Bombings. [182]

Secular Belgium is crumbling. A golden age of Belgium creationism is dawning.[183]

Also, North American creationism will continue to expand. Will the Harvard University evolutionary biology department, which was disgraced in 2011, be able to stop this?

Conservative trouncing of the liberal incumbents in Iceland in early election returns, pointing to a landslide repudiation of the ruling party and an end to plans to join the EU. [184]

An apologetic for Genesis 1-11, based on the best scientific models available. [185]

God's intelligent design is on display in the sky this weekend: "Saturn at its biggest and brightest Saturday." Many people cannot believe it when they see Saturn's rings for the first time through a telescope. [186]

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky showed how abysmally stupid politicians often are. Here's the latest evidence on Barack Hussein Obama's true identity, the significance of which McConnell totally missed. [187]

Why is there only one God? [188]

"Comprehensive immigration reform" is a tool of fundamental change of America – a thing Barack Obama wants. [189]

Earth's core is proven to be as hot as the Sun, contradicting atheistic theories. [190] Biblical scientific foreknowledge predicted this, as Earth and heat were created prior to the Sun.

A new Black Robed Regiment forms in New Jersey, as pastors re-create a previously un-sung influence in the American Revolution. [191]

Lamestream media proven wrong again: "Economic growth, at 2.5%, falls below expectations." [192]

One more chapter to go before the newly revised Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students is sent to a second group of student reviewers. [193]

"In Turkey, a Muslim Lady fights for the Rights of Israel" (the Scientific Creationist Pro-Jewish movement and Al Qaeda in Collision) by Bishop Bert: [194]

Quickly, the Obama Administration and the liberal media try to change the subject from the Boston Marathon bombing to what Syria is allegedly doing halfway around the world. [195] Isn't Boston more important to America than Damascus??

"Yeah, I wanted to kill the people in the building and then smear a Chicken-fil-A sandwich on their face." It's the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center that's been credited by a liberal terrorist for providing the information for his attack on the Family Research Council. [196]

Education reform: a do-it-yourself guide. [197]

Liberals gotta love this one: Tamerlan Tsarnaev had trained himself to be an American-killing terrorist while getting welfare benefits at the same time. [198]

A Tea Party activist lays it on the line: Executive Orders are unconstitutional. [199]

Dem #6 announces his retirement from the U.S. Senate, rather than face reelection. [200] If liberal ideology is so great, then why are so many like Max Baucus quitting its political efforts?

A home schooling family from Germany will defend their rights to home school — in a United States court. The case of Romeike v. Holder comes before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today. [201]

The sometimes conservative Koch Brothers cause angst on the Left by considering buying liberal newspaper failures like the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. [202]

The Boston Marathon bombers were firm believers in liberalism ... meaning that the gun laws so championed by the left wing don't apply to them. [203]

Does that Saudi national know more about the Boston Marathon Bombing than he's telling? Why is the government spiriting him out of this country like a carrier of typhoid fever? Congress wants answers. Glenn Beck threatens to drop a bombshell today or tomorrow. [204] UPDATE: Glenn Beck drops the bombshell, and he's not the only one. Details: [205]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his brother Tamerlan, which was possibly the real cause of his death. [206] Was Dzhokhar on drugs?

Evil does exist: alleged Young Mass Murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted after the bombing, "Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people." [207]

Pro-evolution UK government is producing many second-rate secondary school graduates. [208]

Also, a 2012 study found that more and more U.S. liberal arts colleges are reforming themselves or are closing. See: Worst college majors

"The Binding of Isaac, the 'Akedah', and Jesus Christ" by Bishop Bert [209]

Two geneticists admit: life could never have become as complex as it is today, even in a long age of the earth. So they say life began before the earth! Why don't they just accept creation? [210]

College enrollment shows signs of slowing which means less post high school evolutionary indoctrination. Also, the ever shrinking role of tenured evolutionist professors and evolutionary biologists.[211] See also: Professor values

Secular humanist Paul Kurtz vs. the Christian Francis Schaeffer - Schaeffer wins hands down in the legacy department.[212]

Atheist Paul Kurtz's book The Turbulent Universe - a zero Amazon rating. The book Atheism for Dummies has a 4.5 Amazon star rating.[213] Are atheists smarter?

Also, another reason the so-called expansion of atheism is merely bluster and a mirage. See: Global atheism

More and more American public officials want creationism and/or anti-evolution material in schools. 7 reasons why 2014 will see an increase in anti-evolution legislation.[214]

Attended class and partied on Wednesday: the 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect fit right in on the atheistic, public college campus. [215]

The Obama Administration was informed at least two years ago about the danger posed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the leader of the Boston Marathon bombing, and supposedly had him under surveillance. "They knew what my son was doing," says his mother. [216]

Ancient astronomers kept a 360 day calendar for thousands of years. Why? Could it be because the earth did have a 360 day year once? Find out how. [217]

The atheist and evolutionist PZ Myers throws out Darwin. [218]

The intelligentsia know that an atheist wiki is vastly inferior to Creation.com.[219]

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United Kingdom's long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings (IDR) to 'AA+' from 'AAA'.[220] How long will the British keep Charles Darwin on their currency?

Heavy metal conservative Bradlee Dean warns: governments often use terrorism to their own advantage. [221]

Violent video games likely played a key role in the development of the Boston Young Mass Murderers, but liberal censorship is working overtime to avoid mentioning it.
Meanwhile, video game companies announce profit increases. [222]

Boston Marathon Bombing: 1 suspect dead, another on the run, and yet another casualty. And the Obama administration has some explaining to do. [223]

The sister of the two young Boston bombing suspects stated that she has "no idea what's gotten into them." [224] Perhaps it was submersion into violent video games by the young men?

Leading website analyzer thinks atheist wiki editors produce low quality work.[225] It's time to renew your library cards atheists!

How many Americans are shot and killed each year by government agents?

The same 1994 law that temporarily banned the sale of assault weapons also required the federal government to compile data on police shootings nationwide. However, neither the Justice Department nor most local police departments have bothered to tally such occurrences. Jim Bovard, Washington Times

RINOs rule in New Jersey, and now the Tea Party will make New Jersey their test case. [226]

Impressive animated Christian children's tracts. Are animated dinosaur biblical creation tracts next?[227]

More shocking, unusual violence in Boston: an MIT campus police officer "was shot multiple times" and killed, and the murderer escaped. [228] We pray for the victim.
Yet Massachusetts has strict gun control and very harsh penalties for violations.
UPDATE: The two suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombings did that deed. One is dead; the other is still at large.

The agenda is more important to liberals than saving lives. It's why a monster named Gosnell was allowed to operate an abortion factory where born babies were murdered, and why the media chose to ignore it. [229]

How to reform education in this country: think outside the box. Meaning: don't let the government box you in to their schools. [230]

"US Senate Rejects Expanding Gun Background Checks." Defeated, sore loser Obama responds with liberal style by calling his opponents liars. [231] Hint: he is the liar, not they. [232]

Liberal media headline: "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American" [233] If the bomber turns out to be part of some international terrorist conspiracy, then the USA might respond appropriately, and the article would rather blame white Americans. Separately: are they going to arrest someone or aren't they? [234]

America, will you follow the Nazi route? Remembering Martin Niemöller, John Adams, and Noah Webster as the attack on American values continues. [235]

British socialism drops to a new low: "Protesters along the funeral route turned their backs on Baroness Thatcher's coffin as it passed on its way to St Paul's Cathedral." [236]

LIBERAL DENIAL: an eyewitness reportedly tackled the suspect and turned him over to the police, but officials and the media now pretend they have no idea who committed the heinous crime at the Boston Marathon. [237] The public may never be told the truth, and certainly not soon, in order to avoid political embarrassment.

Was God's finished creation perfect? What did Augustine say about man's ability not to sin before the fall of man?[238]

Barack Obama's plan to destroy America was hatched at Columbia University. [239]

Evil is real, and tragic: 3 were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, and more than 130 hurt, many severely, in the Boston Marathon bombing. [240] Investigators are searching for a foreign-accented suspect seen in the vicinity of the crime.

May God help the victims. [241]

Once again, the leftists infesting the liberal media couldn't wait for the victims to be taken to hospitals before they blame the Boston bombing on the "right wing." [242][243]

Gold bubble bursts - After rising exponentially for a dozen years from $200 to nearly $1,800, the price for a troy ounce of gold dropped to $1,400 this month. [244] [245] [246]

The discovery of fossilized cells in north-west Scotland has forced a dramatic rewrite of the supposed evolutionary history of life on Earth.[247]

All those evolutionists who claimed to know how old life is on earth, must now admit they were very wrong. There are at least 101 reasons why the earth is young.[248]

The third Noah's Ark replica is being built by Hispanics near Miami, who hope the Pope will attend the inauguration. [249] Evidently the falsehoods of atheism continue to be rejected by many.

The National Secular Society says that aggressive French religious lobbies are in a sustained attack on French secularism.[250]

Message to the captain of the SS Secularism: Your ship is taking on more and more water and the waves are going to be bigger and more frequent.[251]

Are liberals going to go after marijuana smoke with the same gusto they have with tobacco smoke? [252]

Liberal teacher in a public school tells fourth-graders to give up Constitutional rights. [253]

Who wants Sheriff Joe dead? [254]

Statutory rape: the missing legal problem in abortion that now has the attention of a bunch of lawyers. [255]

"A Turkish delight: they think so in Israel too!" by Bishop Bert [256]

Russia calls American politicians "Russophobic", in apparent mockery of how liberals push their homosexual agenda on "homophobic" Russia. [257] Try "Biblophobic", a Best New Conservative Word.

Nanny State update: a busybody calls 911 to report a jogger who was running backwards, and the cops in Democrat Miami give him a ticket ... even though he's jogged backwards safely for six years. [258]

Congressman Chris Smith on liberal censorship: "Why the censorship" of the Philadelphia abortionist's "Jeffrey Dahmer-like murder trial?" [259]

Looking for things to see and do? See a beautiful landscape which Questions Evolution! Also, public library science books with Question evolution! campaign tracts placed inside them.[260]

A Tea Party activist sends an open letter to Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania: Your bill looks good, but could be better. He suggests seven specific "fixes." [261]

The liberal media continue their attempt to drive conservative athlete Tim Tebow out of New York City, even for a voluntary off-season practice. "Get rid of Tim Tebow," shouts the headline. [262] Many liberals would rather lose than win with a conservative leader.

Message to PZ Myers and friends: Re-positioning the decades long "atheist nerd brand" is going to be close to impossible. Also, "golden age of internet atheism" is coming to an end. [263]

Without Darwin, some of the atrocities connected with evolution might not have been. But people of faith might have grown complacent, too. [264]

Liberal double standard: when Republicans tape-record Democrats (e.g., Watergate), there is media outrage, but not when Democrats tape-record Republicans, despite a Dem statement that a liberal group probably taped a GOP meeting. [265]

News from the land of atheism: "Margaret Thatcher death celebrations" sweep the faithless Great Britain. [266]

An article on the possible relationship between school shootings and violent video games was censored by the Huffington Post. [267]

The most famous "heavy metal conservative activist" warns: the Homosexual Agenda is real, and is destructive. He offers some explicit examples. [268]

Liberal logic: Hugo Chavez's successor promises, if elected, to hold a special investigation into whether Chavez was "inoculated with cancer cells," and hints that he suspects the "American Empire" was responsible. [269] The liberal media played into this accusation by promoting the fake claims and photo of Chavez's purported good health.

Vive la French Creationnisme! Long live French creationism! French creationists are coming aboard the Question Evolution! Campaign.[270]

"Texas student stabs at least 14 at Lone Star College." [271] Because of gun control, students were unarmed and unable to stop the attack sooner.

A Question evolution! campaign blog is rapidly approaching 400,000 page views. Christian blogosphere will soon be turbocharged via blog marketing expertise.[272]

Biola University posts the Christian apologist William Lane Craig vs. atheist philosopher Alex Rosenburg debate. [273]

Why did the atheist Alex Rosenburg appear to drink so much water in the debate relative to Dr. Craig? Dry mouth nervousness?

Margaret Thatcher, RIP. [274]

Dr. William Lane Craig beats the atheist philosopher Alex Rosenburg in a landslide debate victory.[275]

Why does Duke University still employ this atheist, nutjob professor? See: Professor values

An analysis of Walt Brown’s Flood model (hydroplate model of Noah's Flood). [276]

States are moving in very different directions politically on abortion and other fundamental issues. [277] But people are migrating to the conservative states and away from the liberal ones.

How the hockey stick crumbled. Like it or not, liberals, global warming is a proven farce: [278]

More bad news for liberal public schools: "Virtual learning bills gain momentum in Florida Legislature." [279]

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore rejects liberal advice for women not to raise their own children: "Unfortunately, I was raised in this, like, generation of, like, 'Women can have it all,' and I don't think you can. I think some things fall off the table, the good news is, what does stay on the table becomes much more important" [raising children]. [280] Will Drew become a homeschooler?

Barack Hussein Obama tosses some pork to Florida with plans to capture an asteroid and bring it to orbit around the Moon. If the de facto President wants to worry about a big natural disaster, let him look closer to home. Details: [281]

"Le flop!" Overrated Sports Star David Beckham is "given 3/10 rating" by a candid French press, observing that the Brit "left fellow holding midfielder ... 'to fight for both of them.'" [282]

Massive cable ratings for "The Bible" miniseries on the History channel - much higher than CNN and the Fox News Channel. [283] So why does the lamestream media ignore the Good Book so much?

Can liberty win under seemingly long odds? It did before. A modern activists asks Americans to remember their history, and compare their strength now to their strength during the American Revolution. [284]

A Tea Party activist asks: are politicians really as stupid as they seem concerning the Second Amendment? Or do they have an agenda to deprive us of our rights under it? [285]

Jobs report is below expectations by more than 100,000, and "the participation rate in the workforce is the lowest since May 1979." [286] This is what the liberals told us would be an economic recovery???

How creation was reborn: the three lines of counterattack. [287]

When the American Civil Liberties Union says a new law by a Democrat threatens privacy, the Democrats know they have problems. The ACLU raises strong concerns about the latest gun control law in the Senate. [288]

Overrated Sports Star -- and longtime favorite of the liberal media -- Lance Armstrong is forced out of a swimming meet because of his past conduct. [289]

Self-centered liberals cannot let go of what they think is power: "Obama presses donors to help return Pelosi to speakership." [290]

How the long age view of the age of the earth gained credence. Offers clues to how to reverse that misconception. [291]

Liberal double standard: "Conservatives Shouldn't Own Newspapers?" [292]

The Department of Defense victimizes our fallen heroes, in the name of political correctness. [293]

Oh dear, it appears about 5-7% of American evolutionists believe that "shape-shifting alien reptilian people control our world by taking on human form".[294]

A 15 year-old girl leaves an anti-gun legislature speechless: [295]

"Guns are not the problem; people are." Gun control will not remove guns from society but rather make it harder for people to protect their lives.

What we get as as teachers when liberals control the education: A Weather Underground radical who once served two decades for an armed robbery that killed two cops and a guard is now a professor at Columbia University. [296]

The global warming hoax continued. In fact, it's entirely groundless: [297]

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Sequestration Is Devastating Schools On America’s Indian Reservations

The automatic budget cuts that went into effect on March 1 are already having a devastating impact on education and health services on American Indian reservations, where poverty and unemployment rates are already sky-high and high drug addiction and school dropout rates make education an even bigger necessity than it is in other parts of the U.S.

The federal government provides roughly 60 percent of the funding for reservation schools, according to the Washington Post, and on reservations like Montana’s Fort Peck that have already faced budget cuts are now cutting Head Start and summer school, saving money by not filling vacant jobs, and cutting health care services, the Post reports:

The superintendent can’t hire a reading teacher in an elementary school where more than half the students do not read or write at grade level. Summer school, which feeds children and offers them an alternative to hanging around the reservation’s trash-strewn yards, may be trimmed or canceled. [...]

The school system — for which federal funding already had been reduced before the sequester — is looking for $1.2 million in additional cuts, partly by not filling jobs that go vacant. The Indian Health Service, the reservation’s main source for health care, will also be cut by 8 percent, and Head Start, which serves 240 toddlers, will be cut by 5 percent, officials said.

“Instead of trying to cut, we should be adding,” said Kent Hoffman, the vice principal at the high school, who is also filling in as athletic director, another job that will not be filled. “To me, this is insane.”

States across America are kicking kids out of preschool programs because of sequestration. Indiana is using a lottery to randomly remove kids from Head Start, Tennessee is ending bus service (which could reduce enrollment), and Washington is ending food programs in an effort to keep from removing kids from the program, though officials say that too is “simply unavoidable.”

But the effects of budget cuts are even bigger for reservations, which do not have private property to tax and thus rely on federal education funds more than typical school districts. So Fort Peck will no longer fund a vocational training program, leaving students on a reservation where the unemployment rate tops 50 percent unable to take advantage of the booming oil and gas industry across the state line in North Dakota. Children won’t get preschool. Teachers will lose jobs. People who need medical assistance won’t get it. All thanks to budget cuts the United States doesn’t need.

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"Consider Ann Coulter versus Michael Moore?. Coulter’s entry (on August 9, 2011) was 9028 words long.* Of this longer-than-usual entry, 3220 words were devoted to “Controversies and criticism” in which a series of incidents involving Coulter and quotes from her are cited with accompanying condemnations, primarily from her opponents on the Left. That’s 35.6 percent of Coulter’s entry devoted to making her look bad. By contrast, Moore’s entry is 2876 words (the more standard length for entries on political commentators), with 130 devoted to “Controversy.” That’s 4.5% of the word count, a fraction of Coulter’s. Does this mean that an “unbiased” commentator would find Coulter eight times as “controversial” as Moore?"[http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/ How the left conquered Wikipedia - Part 1]

"Consider Ann Coulter versus Michael Moore?. Coulter’s entry (on August 9, 2011) was 9028 words long.* Of this longer-than-usual entry, 3220 words were devoted to “Controversies and criticism” in which a series of incidents involving Coulter and quotes from her are cited with accompanying condemnations, primarily from her opponents on the Left. That’s 35.6 percent of Coulter’s entry devoted to making her look bad. By contrast, Moore’s entry is 2876 words (the more standard length for entries on political commentators), with 130 devoted to “Controversy.” That’s 4.5% of the word count, a fraction of Coulter’s. Does this mean that an “unbiased” commentator would find Coulter eight times as “controversial” as Moore?"[http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/ How the left conquered Wikipedia - Part 1]

The project was initiated by [[atheist]] and [[entrepreneur]] [[Jimmy Wales]] and the [[agnosticism|agnostic]] [[philosophy]] [[professor]] [[Larry Sanger]] on January 15, 2001.http://www.nndb.com/lists/288/000092012/ An irony of internet history is that Jimmy Wales, despite being an atheist, refers to himself as Wikipedia's "spiritual leader".http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/09/wikimedia_pron_purge/ Despite its official "neutrality policy," Wikipedia has a strong liberal bias. In his article entitled ''Wikipedia lies, slander continue'' [[journalism|journalist]] [[Joseph Farah]] stated Wikipedia "is not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is wholesale purveyor of lies and slander unlike any other the world has ever known."http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83640  Mr. Farah has repeatedly been the victim of defamation at the Wikipedia website.http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83640  In December of 2010, [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[JP Holding]] called Wikipedia "the abomination that causes misinformation".http://tektonticker.blogspot.com/search/label/Wikipedia  Although Wales "made his original fortune as a pornography trafficker," he has since tried to clean up his image and demands retractions when people report this fact.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/heres-your-correction-wikipedia-founder/|title=Here's Your Correction, Wikipedia Founder|date=December 17, 2012|accessdate=December 26, 2012|work=WND}}The project was initiated by [[atheist]] and [[entrepreneur]] [[Jimmy Wales]] and the [[agnosticism|agnostic]] [[philosophy]] [[professor]] [[Larry Sanger]] on January 15, 2001.http://www.nndb.com/lists/288/000092012/ An irony of internet history is that Jimmy Wales, despite being an atheist, refers to himself as Wikipedia's "spiritual leader".http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/09/wikimedia_pron_purge/ Despite its official "neutrality policy," Wikipedia has a strong liberal bias. In his article entitled ''Wikipedia lies, slander continue'' [[journalism|journalist]] [[Joseph Farah]] stated Wikipedia "is not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is wholesale purveyor of lies and slander unlike any other the world has ever known."http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83640  Mr. Farah has repeatedly been the victim of defamation at the Wikipedia website.http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83640  In December of 2010, [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[JP Holding]] called Wikipedia "the abomination that causes misinformation".http://tektonticker.blogspot.com/search/label/Wikipedia  Although Wales "made his original fortune as a pornography trafficker," He has since tried to clean up his image and demands retractions when people report this fact.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/heres-your-correction-wikipedia-founder/|title=Here's Your Correction, Wikipedia Founder|date=December 17, 2012|accessdate=December 26, 2012|work=WND}}See [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Paid Editing]]See [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Paid Editing]]Wikipedia Commons, which collects public domain images, has drawn extensive criticism for sexually explicit material, including nude photos and photos of various acts.  The editors of Wikipedia Commons have created a "Hot Sex Barnstar" to reward those people who upload particularly explicit images.  When a former member of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee asked to have it removed, many people opposed his suggestion.http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:The_Hot_sex_barnstar&oldid=96124965 Retrieved May 12, 2013 The WMF is unable to control the spread of amateur pornography via its sites.Wikipedia Commons, which collects public domain images, has drawn extensive criticism for sexually explicit material, including nude photos and photos of various acts.  The editors of Wikipedia Commons have created a "Hot Sex Barnstar" to reward those people who upload particularly explicit images.  When a former member of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee asked to have it removed, many people opposed his suggestion.http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Deletion_requests/Template:The_Hot_sex_barnstar&oldid=96124965 Retrieved May 12, 2013=== Public Policy in the United States ====== Public Policy in the United States ===

This list covers a wide range of bias in the English Wikipedia website. Although Wikipedia claims to have credibility because anyone can edit it, in fact the website represents the viewpoint of its most strident and persistent editors. This list together with the sublists linked below provide a wide variety of examples of the resulting bias.

On August 23, 2011, David Swindle published an article at FrontPage Magazine detailing how Wikipedia has been taken over by the political left; he cited statistics relating to Wikipedia's articles on Anne Coulter, Michael Moore, Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann, which helped demonstrate that Wikipedia has a leftist bias, and he discussed the liberal/leftist cultural foundations of Wikipedia.[1]

For example, Swindle wrote:

"Consider Ann Coulter versus Michael Moore?. Coulter’s entry (on August 9, 2011) was 9028 words long.* Of this longer-than-usual entry, 3220 words were devoted to “Controversies and criticism” in which a series of incidents involving Coulter and quotes from her are cited with accompanying condemnations, primarily from her opponents on the Left. That’s 35.6 percent of Coulter’s entry devoted to making her look bad. By contrast, Moore’s entry is 2876 words (the more standard length for entries on political commentators), with 130 devoted to “Controversy.” That’s 4.5% of the word count, a fraction of Coulter’s. Does this mean that an “unbiased” commentator would find Coulter eight times as “controversial” as Moore?"[2]

The project was initiated by atheist and entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and the agnostic philosophy professor Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001.[3] An irony of internet history is that Jimmy Wales, despite being an atheist, refers to himself as Wikipedia's "spiritual leader".[4] Despite its official "neutrality policy," Wikipedia has a strong liberal bias. In his article entitled Wikipedia lies, slander continue journalist Joseph Farah stated Wikipedia "is not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is wholesale purveyor of lies and slander unlike any other the world has ever known."[5] Mr. Farah has repeatedly been the victim of defamation at the Wikipedia website.[6] In December of 2010, Christian apologist JP Holding called Wikipedia "the abomination that causes misinformation".[7] Although Wales "made his original fortune as a pornography trafficker," He has since tried to clean up his image and demands retractions when people report this fact.[8]

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Below is a growing list of around 300 examples of liberal bias, deceit, frivolous gossip, and blatant errors on Wikipedia. The atheist Jimmy Wales was a lead founder of Wikipedia. Christian apologist JP Holding called Wikipedia "the abomination that causes misinformation".[9] Because the list of examples is so long, it is divided into sublists based on subject matter. Some of the most egregious examples are in these sublists, which are well worth reading. At risk of duplication, some of the most interesting examples from the sublists are also repeated on this main list to give an overview. (We limit this main list to up to three examples from each sublist.)

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Abortion

Wikipedia has a large article detailing anti-abortion violence committed around the world,[10] but there is no article about pro-abortion violence. There is no article for "Pro-choice violence"[11] and "Pro-abortion violence" bizarrely redirects to the "Abortion debate" article.[12] Before being redirected, the "Pro-abortion violence" article was biased towards downplaying the reality of violence committed by supporters of abortion.[13] For example, while the "Anti-abortion violence" article matter-of-factly begins: "Anti-abortion violence is violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion." ...the "Pro-abortion violence" article dismissingly began: "Pro-abortion violence (or pro-choice violence) is a term used in the pro-life movement to characterize acts of violence committed by abortion practitioners or abortion advocates against those who oppose abortion or against pregnant women. The former is regarded as factual while the latter is just "a term used in the pro-life movement." Wikipedia changes the meaning of a key quote from an abortion-breast cancer article in the Lancet medical journal (Beral, et al.), falsely stating that it "concluded that abortion does not increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer."[14] The Lancet article said no such thing about a woman's decision to have an abortion, which does increase the woman's risk of breast cancer. Rather, the Lancet article limited its assertion to a claim about the overall effect of a pregnancy that terminates early.[15] Wikipedia's entry on Benazir Bhutto has nearly 8,000 words on all aspects of her life, and yet not one word acknowledging that she led the movement against the United Nations' creating a new international right to abortion.[16]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Anti-Christianity

Wikipedia's article on You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, the youth rock ministry of Bradlee Dean, is an attack page which was criticized in a WND column.[17] In response, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, demanded a retraction regarding his past as "a pornography trafficker". Instead, WND published detailed documentation of Wales' Boomis pornography website.[18] Wikipedia's article on Extremism specifically points out Christians are commonly called extreme, "It is also not uncommon to necessarily define distinctions regarding extremist Christians as opposed to moderate Christians, as in countries such as the United States" [2] Wikipedia has a lengthy entry on "Jesus H. Christ,"[19] a term that is an idiotic mockery of the Christian faith. Wikipedia calls the term "often humorous," "joking" and "comedic", and relishes in repeating disrespectful uses of the term, without admitting that the phrase is an anti-Christian mockery. Meanwhile, Wikipedia does not describe mockery of any other religion as "humorous". Arguments for atheism are prominently featured in Wikipedia's atheism article, but Wikipedia's Christianity article does not mention Christian apologetics. The Wikipedia article on elopement appears to make light of the tradition of marriage and weddings.

See Wikipedia on bestiality

As of July 18, 2012, Wikipedia's article on zoophilia/bestiality has an entire section on "arguments for zoophilia" plus pictures depicting zoophilia as well as a section on "arguments against zoophilia". No worthwhile encyclopedia in existence has an article on zoophilia/bestiality with an entire section on "arguments for zoophilia" plus pictures depicting zoophilia. As of September 24, 2011, Wikipedia has a "Zoophilia and the law" article which has a section on the impact of zoophilia laws where eight alleged negative impacts of zoophilia laws are given, but no positive impacts of the laws are given.[20]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Conservapedia smears

Wikipedia displays pervasive bias in making liberal statements with citations that do not support the statements, as illustrated by its entry about Conservapedia.[21] Wikipedia states that "Conservapedia has asserted that Wikipedia is 'six times more liberal than the American public', a statistic which has been criticized for its poor extrapolation and lack of credibility." But the two citations for this claim of "poor extrapolation and lack of credibility" are to articles that say nothing about extrapolation or credibility and instead tend to confirm the liberal bias on Wikipedia. For nearly two months, from at least as early as July 15 through September 9, 2007, Wikipedia classified its critics, including Conservapedia, as "Fanatics and Special Interests."[22] In 2011 Wikipedia User S organized systematic vandalism of Conservapedia using the English Wikipedia IRC. This only came to light when he was nominated to be a Wikipedia Administrator and users there debated whether his actions were a good or bad thing to do.[23]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Conservative Personalities

On November 2, 2006, days before the mid-term Congressional elections, an anonymous IP address traced to the New York Times changed U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay's Wikipedia biographical entry from "a prominent member of the Republican Party" to "Grand Dragon of the Republican Party."[24][25][dead link] Wikipedia has thousands of obscure pages for individuals that the public never heard of or recognize. Conservative undercover journalist Hannah Giles is not given her own page mostly likely due to the fact she has taken on the liberal establishment and won. A search of Hannah Giles gives her an obscure paragraph in what Wikipedia titles the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.[26] For liberal politicians, Wikipedia uses flattering photos. But for conservative politician Sally Kern, about whom homosexual activists have had a sissy fit, Wikipedia used an absurd, uncharacteristic photo.[27]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Ethnic and racial

For over a year, the article on Glen A. Wilson High School contained threats against an Asian student and made ethnic slurs against the school's primarily Asian badminton team.[28] The scope and depth of racism prevalent on Wikipedia is despicable. Over a thousand pages that include the ethnic slur 'Nigger', many in the page title. [3] Wikipedia has developed a series of history articles outlining the struggles of Jews, Catholics, Asians and blacks against discrimination and the Kl Klux Klan. These articles are now called "African-American Civil Rights Movement" despite being formerly called "American Civil Rights Movement."[29][30][31][32][33]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Gender bias

Wikipedia has a gender gap crusade which seeks to increase the percentage of female editors. (In practice that crusade has the effect of driving away male editors.) There are also many serious examples of gender bias in Wikipedia's content. When a New York Times op-ed crticised feminist Wikipedia editors for moving women from Category:American Novelists to a separate category,[34] the article about the author was attacked and watered down, restored[35] and attacked again.[36]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Global warming

A recent charge is that U.K. scientist and Green Party activist and Realclimate.org member William Connolley functioned as a Wikipedia editor and website administrator, repressing information that militated against Climate Change. As such he "rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period."[37] Michael Mann is a well known global warming alarmist who is ridiculed for his so-called scientific work on tree ring temperature data, the Hockey Stick theory and was the subject of fraud in the Climategate scandal. Wikipedia decides not to allow any mention of his involvement with Climategate. Any mention of Climategate is immediately removed from Mann's page. [38]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Homosexuality

Wikipedia editors regularly and fiercely alter the use of the terms "he" or "she" in articles regarding cross-dressing/transsexual figures. Men attempting to pass as females are near-universally referred to as "she" while women attempting to pass as men are referred to as "he", despite this usage absolutely incorrect in both scientific and legal senses. When NBA Basketball player Jason Collins announced that he was a homosexual, his Wikipedia biography was altered to say that he was a "faggot." When an editor attempted to change the word to "gay" Wikipedia's anti-vandalism robot changed it back.[39][40][41] An editor replaced his photo with a poster for "Gay N-word".[42] After the page drew criticism on the Huffington Post, Wikipedia locked the page to editing and the changes have been hidden from public view. The article on the 2012-13 Washington Wizzards season had similar problems.[43] The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) claims to have a policy against internet censorship. Yet, the WMF has entered into a partnership with the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) to provide Wikipedia to mobile phone subscribers, prompting questions about the potential conflict over censorship.[44] Meanwhile, the English Wikipedia has an article entitled "List of Wikipedia articles censored in Saudi Arabia".[45]

See, Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Sun News Network

In early October 2005, a prominent and respected journalist John Seigenthaler Sr., contacted Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about false and libelous content in his biographical entry. Instead of correcting the false allegations that Seignthaler was involved in the Kennedy assassinations, Wales and other editors turned it into a wikidrama with attacks on Seigenthaler for trying to defend his own good name.[46][47][48] [49][50] Israeli journalist Gideon Levy's Wikipedia Biography has been frequently vandalized with false facts, including allegations that his father was a Nazi collaborator.[51] So many slanderous statements have been posted that the revisions to the article have been hidden from public view at least 22 times.[52] BBC presenter Lynn Parsons wrote Wikipedia claiming that her biography was false -- including her birth date. Her request to have her article deleted was voted down.[53]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Liberal Politicians

Wikipedia now promotes the late liberal icon Ted Kennedy as the leader of ... "progressivism": "By the time of his death, he had come to be viewed as a major figure and spokesman for American progressivism."[54] Wikipedia's article on Jimmy Carter's Presidency is clearly biased in favor of the failed politician.[55]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Obama

Wikipedia added a "Controversies" sections to their article for the "Presidency of George W. Bush"[56] but not to their article on the "Presidency of Barack Obama"[57] It has since been removed.[58] In addition to the previous example, there was a massive Wikipedia article for "Criticism of George W. Bush,"[59] but the article for "Criticism of Barack Obama" had been deleted at least FOUR TIMES since October 2008 with excuses like "Article that has no meaningful, substantive content" and "Attack page or negative unsourced BLP."[60] Wikipedia has since redirected "Criticism of George W. Bush" and added "Public image of" articles for both presidents, however President Bush's article is heavily negative[61] while President Obama's is filled with glowing, pandering fluff with very few meaningful criticisms.[62]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Paid Editing

Wikipedia Commons, which collects public domain images, has drawn extensive criticism for sexually explicit material, including nude photos and photos of various acts. The editors of Wikipedia Commons have created a "Hot Sex Barnstar" to reward those people who upload particularly explicit images. When a former member of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee asked to have it removed, many people opposed his suggestion.[63]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Public Policy in the US

Wikipedia's entry for the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) reads like an advertisement for vaccine manufacturers, including unsupported and implausible claims about vaccination.[64] Unsupported claims featured there include "Vaccine makers indicated they would cease production if their proposal for the NCVIA was not enacted" and "concern that the NCVIA may not provide an adequate legal shield." Wikipedia's entry omits references to leading pro-parent websites concerning vaccination,[65] and instead Wikipedia's entry lists pro-government and pro-vaccine-manufacturer websites. Wikipedia's entry even includes this entire paragraph, which is unsupported and is little more than an advertisement for drug companies: Public health safety, according to backers of the legislation, depends upon the financial viability of pharmaceutical companies, whose ability to produce sufficient supplies in a timely manner could be imperiled by civil litigation on behalf of vaccine injury victims that was mounting rapidly at the time of its passage. Vaccination against infectious illnesses provides protection against contagious diseases and afflictions which may cause permanent disability or even death. Vaccines have reduced morbidity caused by infectious disease; e.g., in the case of smallpox, mass vaccination programs have eradicated a once life-threatening illness.

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Science and Evolution

Wikipedia savages anyone who criticizes the theory of evolution, such as Dr. William Dembski, whom Wikipedia introduces with outlandish, unsupported quotations by liberal critics.[66] For example, Wikipedia describes David H. Wolpert as a "prominent mathematician" in order to insert a scathing, unjustified quotation by him about Dembski.[66] In fact, Wolpert does not even hold a math degree and his (non-math) doctorate was from the University of California at the weak Santa Barbara location.[67] Dembski's PhD is in math from the preeminent University of Chicago. Wikipedia's article on dinosaurs contains no mention of the strong evidence that they existed alongside humans and no mention of modern sightings of dinosaur-like creatures reported by the best of the public.[68]

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Conspiracy theories

In Wikipedia's page on the ABC's docudrama The Path to 9/11, the page contains a section titles "Controversy and criticisms," which contains 19 sub-sections to support it, while the section titled "Controversy: support for The Path to 9/11" only contains four, despite the fact that the controversy was sparked by pro-Clinton liberals that failed to see the fact that the two-part miniseries criticized both Bush and Clinton administrations leading up to 9/11 and that writer Cyrus Nowrasteh stated that many of their consultants on it stated that the docudrama went easy on Clinton. It also fails to note John Ziegler's documentary on the censoring of the docudrama Blocking the Path to 9/11 [4], which contains interviews with many people on the topic, and points out how the MSM liberals and Clintons have smeared it so much that it has destroyed it from ever being shown on TV or being sold on DVD in the near-future. [5] The Wikipedia article "List of consipracy theories" ridicules and dismisses as "conspiracy theories" more hypotheses advanced by conservative thinkers than hypotheses advanced by left wing thinkers. The editor(s) of this page have an obvious liberal bias that hold in disfavor a number of ideas advanced by conservatives. For example, Water Fluoridation has been opposed by many conservative groups due to concerns about health impacts as well as a question of personal freedom and limits on the proper scope of government. Yet, the Wikipedia list dismisses these views as a "conspiracy theory" that draws on "distrust of experts and unease about medicine and science". In another example, peak oil is a theory advanced by many conservatives including geologist T. Boone Pickens. Yet, the page dismisses it, noting "There are theories that the 'peak oil' concept is a fraud concocted by the oil industries to increase prices amid concerns about future supplies."[69] The Wikipedia article "The Plan (Washington, D.C.)" is one of the conspiracy theories included on the official Wikipedia conspiracy list. However, the article cites few sources supporting the existence of the conspiracy to replace black residents with whites in Washington DC and no sources that refute the existence of the conspiracy.

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Naziism, Socialism, Communism

Wikipedia's main article on Communism does not mention any act of genocide in Communist countries, and any attempts to edit the page to include this information are deleted. The Nazism page, however, includes multiple mentions of the Holocaust. The only mention of communist genocide is buried deep within the article structure for Communism. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew communism in Chile and then restored democracy before voluntarily giving up power himself, is called a "dictator" by Wikipedia,[70] but Fidel Castro, the communist dictator of Cuba for four decades, is instead called a "leader" or even a "president".[71][72] Wikipedia is sympathetic to Fidel Castro in its entry about Cuba.[73] Wikipedia blames President Dwight Eisenhower for choosing "to attend a golf tournament" rather than meet the revolutionary Castro in 1959, and then Wikipedia claims that Castro became a communist because of the American-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Conservapedia tells the truth up-front: "Cuba has been ruled by a communist dictator named Fidel Castro since 1959."[74] Wikipedia's article on far-left politics outright praises the dismantling of social structures and even goes on to say that the far-left promotes equality, while failing to mention the blatant anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hate speech among the far-left, its racism against whites in the form of Jeremiah Wright, the blatant racism among groups like Black Panthers. While its far-right politics articles accuse them of maintaining a social hierarchy and being racist and being supremacists that keep the "oppression" in check, while utterly failing to mention the black supremacist politics among the far-left. It promotes the far-left as bringing equality, while failing to mention its supremacist racism by people like NBP for example.

See Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: General or uncategorized

Wikipedia falsely reported that the prime minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, was a pedophile who had served time in prison.[75][76] Wikipedia appeals to a dumbed-down culture of users that appreciate obscenity instead of education. The vulgar swear word referring to sex, F---, is mentioned in nearly 7,000 articles. [6] Most recently, it is used in an article about Republican Senate candidate Michael Baumgartner when the article's sources did not spell out that word.[77] Wikipedia does its best to cover-up crimes and lewd behavior coming from left leaning Occupy Wall Street crowd. Assault emphasized, rape is minimized by the terms omission. Rape is not used in the article and can only be found in a reference title at the end of the page. [78] Wikipedia does not mention until after 600 words that Jared Loughner, like many Wikipedia editors, is an atheist, and its entry initially failed to admit that he is also a nihilist, an extreme form of atheism.[79] A Wikipedia editor going under the pseudonym Jagged85 made 67,000 edits between 2007 and 2010 until it was demonstrated that he was systematically misrepresenting Islamic science, technology, and philosophy. [7]

A major source of bias comes from the Wikipedia pillar of "verifiability." Wikipedia proudly proclaims, "Verifiability, and not truth, is one of the fundamental requirements for inclusion in Wikipedia;"[80] There have been many attempts to change this because when a Wikipedia editor tries to remove false content, editors who favor biased content rely upon this policy to retain the falsehoods.[81][82][83] An example of such misuse involve radical feminists who tried to have Wikipedia state that netball was an Olympic sport[84] when in fact it has never been played "at the Olympics." Because they found a speech where a politician told the New South Wales Parliament that netball was "technically an Olympic sport"[85] they were able to retain this false material as if it were a verified fact.

Requiring just one source to meet Wikipedia's verifiability standard is a serious logical flaw. Any well-established fact can be contradicted by finding one obscure source somewhere on the web, and Wikipedia will allow just one reference to overrule the majority of definitive sources saying the opposite.

Another bias is from "show and tell." Some Wikipedia editors have not outgrown their need to show off what they have found on the internet. Again using the obscure sport of netball as an example, the editor found a photo posted on flickr that was labeled, "The Girls Netball Team"[86] even though it did not show anyone playing netball. The editor then captioned the photo, "A Malawian netball team" and placed it along side a few other obscure facts to create a Malawi section of the netball article.[87] So how can the reader trust that the people in the photograph are really in Malawi and that they really play netball?[88][89] Adding photos to articles is the most visible form of the "show and tell" syndrome. The need to "show and tell" can also result in including random, obscure facts and data in an article. For example, an editor can find a data source from years ago, but if the data is included in the article without proper emphasis of the date, it creates the implication that the data remains true today.[90]

Errors and bias can be introduced by robotic submissions. For example, many Wikipedia articles about populated places in the United States were created by robots using 2000 census data. A standard paragraph on demographics which included 2000 data was automatically included in each article. Wikipedia has not been able to program a robot to update all of those statistics, so most articles about places in the United States do not have more recent data from the 2010 census. Robots tagged many Wikipedia articles that had an article name in common with those in an early edition of Encyclopædia Britannica as having that book as a source -- even if nothing in the article was based on that book, and no human checked if the Wikipedia article was consistent with the Britannica article.

Another level of error and bias comes from Wikipedia's reliance on poorly-trained volunteers instead of paid professionals. For example, someone proposed that a copyrighted photo of Joseph Stalin taken by Margaret Bourke-White be deleted in 2009.[91] It was kept because someone with a gmail account sent permission claiming to be her son. She died without children[92] and the photo's copyrighted actually belonged to Time, Inc. but the mistake was not detected until 2012.

Wikipedia relies upon volunteer administrators to maintain the accountability of the website and enforce its rules. The number of administrators continues to shrink. In January 2008, there were 1,011 administrators, but the number dropped to 661 in November 2012.[93] The number drops because the process of selecting new administrators subjects each candidate to extensive abuse. If the action of Wikipedia administrators appear very odd, perhaps it is because the actions are the product of anonymous, very young people or, in some cases, of mentally ill people. For example, sysop Altenmann was desysopped and community-banned in April 2010 for sockpuppeting and improper closure of deletion discussions over a period of several years. He admitted mental illness and has been unbanned.[94]

Fundametally, the owner of a website is accountable for its governance and contents. To qualify for a tax exemption, Wikipedia is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) that has a Board of Directors and a paid professional staff of 146.[95] However, the WMF, its Board and Staff disavow any accountability for the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Instead, co-founder Jimmy Wales claims ultimate authority for it, and acts as the executive/monarch on whatever he chooses. For example, although the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee is selected in an election, Wales accepts the election results and appoints the new members. If a person has a complaint about being falsely libled by Wikipedia, the WMF disavows any control of the matter and hides behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. So, the WMF has a legal incentive to maintain a "hands off" approach to content disputes. Its Board and Staff collect the charitable donations and meet IRS requirements, but Wales and the volunteer editors maintain the biased, defamatory site.

See also: 10 telltale signs you are on your way to becoming an atheist nerd - satire

An article entitled Wikipedia Gridlocked by Wikipedia Nerds declared:

So who are these Gatekeepers to all the internet's knowledge?

A survey the foundation conducted last year determined that the average age of an editor is 26.8 years, and that 87% of them are men.

As you suspected: nerds.[96]

All of my action figures are Cherry,

Stephen Hawking's in my library....

I edit Wikipedia...I'm nerdy in the extreme, whiter than sour cream...

They see me strollin', they're laughin' And rollin' their eyes cause I'm so White and nerdy". - White and Nerdy, Weird Al Yankovic[97]

From July 26, 2011 to March 13, 2012, the Wikipedia article "Cannabis reform at the international level" referred to the "U.S Department of Justice Drug Endorsement Administration" instead of the Drug Enforcement Administration.[98] The phrase had been inserted by User "Dala11a".

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