Snopes is a site to check things out to be sure they are true before forwarding
on to anyone else. Anyone who promotes MSG and aspartame as being healthful
must be nuts. I don’t understand who you are asking about if they are a real
doctor. Dr. Bruce West is a real doctor. He’s also a biochemist.
Amber
Anyone has any idea about this website www.snopes.com? It made me upset since
it seems like the people who wrote these web anti all natural way of life and
support the product like MSG or aspatame and they said it is good to consume for
health and make many people believe in it including my family who support
whatever they wrote!! Are they the real doctor or what?? Kiki—
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Question that bug me so much!!
August 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: gallstones
4 responses so far ↓
1 Neva Marjory // Aug 3, 2007 at 5:35 pm
the snopes site is apparantly some people ..probably the government, who want to
diss all natural products..
just ignore their rubbish.
anne
2 Bernie Magaly // Aug 3, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I don’t understand why you are so down on Snopes. They are a place to check out
Urban legends before forwarding false information to anyone.
Amber
the snopes site is apparantly some people ..probably the government, who want
to diss all natural products..
just ignore their rubbish.
anne
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3 Gracie Fae // Aug 4, 2007 at 4:47 am
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check out Urban legends before forwarding false information to anyone.
Amber
the snopes site is apparantly some people ..probably the government, who
want to diss all natural products..
just ignore their rubbish<snip
The people at Snopes.com ARE “some people,” much like every other site
online typically consists of “some people.” However, they are not
government employees or government related.
Snopes.com is a fantastic site for debunking urban legends and all those
wasteful chain e-letters we receive. They are credible and do their
homework. When they can’t find the answer to something, they say so, but
they never make stuff up.
That said, if there are claims being made for something to which there is no
hard evidence to back it up, then they go with the hard evidence. (That’s
what good researchers do!)
Of course, we all know there are things in which most of the evidence is
anecdotal. These should always be taken with a grain of salt, even if there
seems to be some truth to it. Does that mean we can’t be open to new and
alternative ideas? No. There is a lot of medical knowledge that is
accepted today that was once laughed at or vehemently rejected at one time.
The people at Snopes don’t take sides in a controversy. They ferret out the
facts that are known about a given subject and present those. This is their
stance on the most recent worries about the bill before congress:
“Whether herbal remedies should also be subject to such FDA regulation is a
subject of debate. As always, concerned citizens should make their decisions
from an informed position, not by allowing themselves to be influenced by a
scary and potentially misleading e-petition.”
I think this is good advice!
Suzy
4 Bernie Magaly // Aug 4, 2007 at 8:33 am
Thank you.
Amber
Snopes.com is a fantastic site for debunking urban legends and all those
wasteful chain e-letters we receive. They are credible and do their
homework.
Suzy
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