Snopes: The Real Truth

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Dear Lists:

 

I'm putting this on line because we have had trouble with Snopes for

years. When I lectured for the World Environmental Conference,

www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html they told people it was a hoax. This

is even after them getting on this web site and seeing my invitation

to speak and even the confession of Dr. Gaylord of the EPA who gave

the keynote address, as to why the EPA lied about it. Aspartame

victims would write and complain about their article and they would

tell people they probably worked for the sugar company or the stevia company.

 

Here is the letter I wrote them which includes a letter from Attorney

Ed Johnson who once worked in the Justice Department and who is in

the movie, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv

 

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_no_hoax.htm No Hoax, Crime of the Century.

 

Read on as more and more posts are exposing Snopes.

 

All my best,

Betty

www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

 

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Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:38:22 -0600

 

 

I have never had any respect for SNOPES and it is very annoying when

someone uses them as a reference. M.

 

 

Snopes won't disclose their funding. Where does their $ come

from? An informed generation used to call these things front organizations.

 

 

USE YOUR OWN JUDGMENT...

For all you folks who think <http://snopes.com/>snopes.com is the final word

 

THIS MAY SURPRISE YOU

 

For the past few years <http://www.snopes.com/>http://www.snopes.com/

has positioned itself, or

 

Others have labeled it as the 'tell-all, final word' on any comment,

 

Claim and e-mail. But for several years people tried to find out who

 

exactly was behind <http://snopes.com/>snopes.com. Only recently did

Wikipedia get to

 

the bottom of it - kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding.

 

Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right,

 

no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers..

 

It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.

 

 

 

David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California

 

started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal

 

background or experience in investigative research. After a few years

 

it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over

 

the past couple of years people started asking questions who was

 

behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the

 

questions - or skepticisms - is a result of

<http://snopes.com/>snopes.com claiming to

 

have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issues, when in

 

fact, they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the

 

Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true'

 

bottom of various issues.

 

 

 

When I saw that Snopes had falsely claimed that Obama's Birth

 

Certificate had been properly validated, I realized something was

 

wrong with either their research and/or their credibility. It seems

 

something is seriously wrong with both. Then a few months ago, when

 

my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign

 

referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet,

 

supposedly the Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before

 

posting their findings on <http://snopes.com/>snopes.com. In their

statement they claimed

 

the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down

 

the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ever took place.

 

 

 

I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me)

 

thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud

 

Gregg's contact phone numbers. Bud was going to give him phone

 

numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have

 

been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In

 

fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one from

<http://snopes.com/>snopes.com ever contacted

 

anyone with State Farm. Yet <http://snopes.com/>snopes.com issued a

statement as the

 

'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework &

 

got to the bottom of things. Not!

 

 

 

Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very Democrat and

 

extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election,

 

liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to

 

be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the

 

internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing

 

itself in their website findings. Gee, what a shock!

 

 

 

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to

<http://www.snopes.com/>http://www.snopes.com/ to get

 

what they think to be the bottom line facts: Proceed with caution.

 

Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead

 

you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for

 

yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research

 

yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After

 

all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not'

 

fully looking into things.

 

 

 

Dick & Cathy Coulter

 

 

 

When you " Snope " it; better get a second opinion from other sites!