Snopes Takes the Low Road

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).