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| Topic: snopes is busted and debunked!!!! | |
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HA HA HA Take everything you read with a grain of salt...but come on! Wikipedia giving a definitive word on anything? WOW That's very entertaining. Thanks, two points for the funniest posting of the day! you are exactly right. the media can put a twist on anything. opinion are the same |
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It's more Anti-Semitic nonsense. What does the fact that they are Jewish have anything to do with it? And this is a cut and paste from the URL listed. Hmmm...I didn't pick that up the first time that I read it. "Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are jewish - very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal." Also, when did Wikipedia become a secure source of information? The facts are Wikipedia is a collective of information received by the readers or people who think they have something to contribute. It has been inaccurate at times and if you see something inaccurate on Wikipedia you just report it and they will change it. As for the couple who sponser or run Snopes.com they do a hell of a job with their snoping I have to say. They are pretty reliable. |
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 dragoness and I agree lol happy dance 
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Main Entry: ob·sess
Pronunciation: \əb-ˈses, äb-\ transitive verb : to haunt or excessively preoccupy the mind of <was obsessed with the idea> intransitive verb : to engage in obsessive thinking : become obsessed with an idea 
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dragoness and I agree lol happy dance    
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I can tell you that not even our local high school will allow wiki references to be included in any research papers as they are not a creditable source.
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well, there are more articles out there on this very thing, i just felt like using that post.
this comes from techdirt.com Mark Glaser's latest piece is a good interview with one half of the couple who runs Snopes.com, the ever-popular site for debunking urban legends and various hoaxes, talking about how they debunked the "Bambi Hoax" that everyone was talking about earlier this month. If you happened to miss it, there was a story (covered widely by the press) that someone in Nevada had set up a "game" where men could pay $10,000 and then shoot paintballs at naked women out in the desert. The press bought it, completely, but the husband and wife team at Snopes realized that it was improbable, at best, and worked out that the whole thing was a scam to sell videos off of someone's website. The interview also talks about how, in some areas, people are now more skeptical of things online (especially images), but if they want to believe something, they ignore all the signs that it's a hoax. The best line is that the way most reporters check to see if something is a hoax is to simply call up the person involved and ask them if they're being honest or not - which isn't likely to reveal very much. i underlined the husband and wife team if that is what you are doubting. |
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People have been believing what they want to believe despite evidence to the contrary since way before the internet came along.
Hence the success of snake oil salesmen, ponzi schemers, magicians, politicians and every organized church on the planet. |
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as far as Hunting for Bambi hoax....BOTH snopes and wiki concluded they were hoaxes. in FACT...wiki gives external links as their sources and snopes.com was one of them.
snopes (and wiki) both list the sources of reference. snopes goes to more credible sources especially when even wiki sites snopes. |
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yep, and everytime in the history of our world that a great nation fell to it's knees, someone had lied convincingly to the leader.
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People have been believing what they want to believe despite evidence to the contrary since way before the internet came along. Hence the success of snake oil salesmen, ponzi schemers, magicians, politicians and every organized church on the planet. HEY!!!!!!!! snake oil is good for the skin and cures what ails ya
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Edited by
yellowrose10
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Fri 03/06/09 02:57 PM
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as far as Hunting for Bambi hoax....BOTH snopes and wiki concluded they were hoaxes. in FACT...wiki gives external links as their sources and snopes.com was one of them. snopes (and wiki) both list the sources of reference. snopes goes to more credible sources especially when even wiki sites snopes. so based on all of this...how is snopes debunked? because a poster on another forum site said so? even though wiki gives the links of snopes as part of wiki's source? or because it was founded by a husband/wife team? i doubt they are the only ones that do all the research. i suspect they have others helping them research it |
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it's funny, i went fishing with a friend of mine and we saw a guy throw a cast net from the side of a pier. the current was bringing it back in quickly towards one of the pilings and i told the guy to pull the net back up as fast as he could. he stood there looking at me and then down at his net. he couldn't see the piling from where he was so he just blew my warning off. i stood there just watching his cast net wrap around the pilings and getting caught all up in the barnacles. he chose not to listen to me. i walked away unscathed by it and having a lesser opinion of the guy. I don't understand why you would automatically have a lesser opinion of him? Some guy you don't even know. |
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I stopped reading at
Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it |
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I stopped reading at Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it funny thing is ... wiki has used snopes as a reference in other articles |
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it's funny, i went fishing with a friend of mine and we saw a guy throw a cast net from the side of a pier. the current was bringing it back in quickly towards one of the pilings and i told the guy to pull the net back up as fast as he could. he stood there looking at me and then down at his net. he couldn't see the piling from where he was so he just blew my warning off. i stood there just watching his cast net wrap around the pilings and getting caught all up in the barnacles. he chose not to listen to me. i walked away unscathed by it and having a lesser opinion of the guy. I don't understand why you would automatically have a lesser opinion of him? Some guy you don't even know. because i had the 'right' to have a lesser one if i wanted to. i chose to excercise that right. |
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because i had the 'right' to have a lesser one if i wanted to. i chose to excercise that right. Duh! |
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still don't see how snopes is busted and debunked
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still don't see how snopes is busted and debunked Psst...it's not. It's still one of the best sources of unbiased factual information.
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still don't see how snopes is busted and debunked Psst...it's not. It's still one of the best sources of unbiased factual information. psst...i know. they show the references they use and they are credible ones. why are we whispering? 
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