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The Theory of Gravity is a Hoax

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This is hilarious. This is one of those "in the right place at the right time" things. Vandalism like that usually only is up for a few minutes, apparently the same few minutes when DuckDuckGo was crawling that page. Amazing.

How is this funny? As someone who occasionally votes Republican, I'm tired of being told by my peers that I must be stupid and evil for doing so. For the record, I've never met a Republican that doesn't believe in gravity.

Unfortunately 'Republican' has become synonymous with the extreme-religious-right - itself a likely small subset of all Republicans. It's this 'subset' who actively promote certain world views - a popular one being that evolution is only a 'theory' or a hoax. It's no wonder those views attract the occasional joke or ridicule... it's low hanging fruit. Really easy, and really funny.

I'm not a US citizen, so can't vote, but if I could I would very seriously consider voting republican, but for their extreme views on 'social' issues. I suspect I'm like a lot of other people in the US - fiscally conservative, socially liberal. Sadly for the Republican party, people like me are really only left with a choice of voting Democrat when faced with the prospect of our schools teaching our children that the Universe was LITERALLY created in 7 days.

Just my $0.02

I believe that you are missing the point: most Republicans do not believe in evolution because, as they say rather cluelessly "it is just a theory". Well, it turns out that gravity also is "just a theory".

All the people who vote Republican in my social network believe in evolution. I allow that I have seen news reports of people who tend Republican in other areas of the country who do not. Have you ever met a Republican creationist?

I would be interested to see polls on evolution belief of poor inner-city residents or unionized blue collar laborers who support Democrats. I expect the results would not be flattering.

Here's something: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/05/03/republicans...

You're correct, it's not flattering.

That was my first thought, but then my second thought was Easter Egg.

And here is the pertinent revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gravity&oldid...

It survived for almost three and a half hours.

I like the note at the end of the revision page: "This version of the page has been revised. Besides normal editing, the reason for revision may have been that this version contains factual inaccuracies, vandalism, or material not compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License."

So I just discovered this while I was doing some research for a paper I'm writing on gravity. Anyone know why duckduckgo shows this rather than an excerpt from the article it links to for the first link?

Cached from when it last crawled the page.

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