Snopes Takes the Low Road

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I remember when Snopes told everyone that Codex would never come to the

USA and not to be concerned about it - this was right before the vote for an

important bill and voting against it would have insured that Codex did not

come to the States. But many people listed to Snopes and so did not call

nor write their political representatives and unfortuately the bill passed.

 

 

Snopes Takes the Low Road

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By Scott Straley

 

 

Snopes.com, a Web site that aims to validate or debunk urban legends,

fraudulent practices and other claims of questionable accuracy, did their part

to support Big Money corporate interests by completely ignoring the

existing backlog of independent medical research spelling out the extreme

dangers

of ingesting the harmful chemical compound aspartame.

 

 

The site gave aspartame a thumbs up and sided with the forces of hack

politico FDA operatives (read: corporate lackeys) and careless corporate

profiteers who have lied, distorted and concealed the truth about the harmful

chemical compound. Citing a convoluted, confusing, inarticulate jumble of

ostensible “evidence†as the basis of their declaration that claims of

aspartame’s deadly toxicity are false, they appear to be joining a long

history of

lying, propagandizing and misinformation campaigning by the aspartame

corporate money machine.

 

 

Acting decisively without any clear indication or even a cursory

explanation of what led them to their sweeping conclusion, snopes proved itself

guilty of horrible scholarship and highly suspect motivation, thereby reducing

itself to just another Web site doomed to sink into a mire of

self-generated meaninglessness.

 

 

Just a suggestion, snopes: If you want to make false statements about

clearly demonstrated truths in order to invalidate them, have a better reason

than a big, fat, arbitrary NONE AT ALL (or, apparently, one that you’d

rather not admit to having). Here’s one more tip, while we’re at it: when

millions of people’s lives and health are at stake, have the common human

decency to do your homework, clearly state the basis of your findings, don’t

make

recommendations based on BS, and don’t just treat the whole thing like some

dimwitted claims of abominable snowman sightings in Key West.

 

 

Way to go, snopes! Resulting from your laziness and morally irresponsible

support of the corporate scumbags who lie, cheat, and are not hesitant

about hurting millions of innocent people for big bucks, you’ve compounded

the

danger of aspartame, cast grave doubt on whatever decency you might have

once had and reduced your site’s accuracy and reliability quotient to the

ironic status URBAN LEGEND.

 

 

Way to drink the corporate koolaid, snopes (we hope it wasn’t sugar free).