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Snopes.com is a website founded by Barbara and David Mikkelson that dedicates itself to researching and confirming the truth behind stupidity urban legends, chain e-mails, and other stories of uncertain origin. Some of this includes various forms of woo, religious stories, and myths about politicians (Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Bill and Hillary Clinton all have their own sections).

Woo-pushers, the fringe on either end of the political spectrum, and those who benefit from these stories tend to dismiss Snopes as wrong or biased, despite research showing it isn't. To show that it really isn't biased or just plain cynical, a surprising number of myths actually turn out to be true (although usually in a much more mundane way than the chain letters imply).

Randomly browsing Snopes is a fun way to kill your day, right up there with TV Tropes and Cracked.

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[edit] External links

  • Snopes.com the site itself. Everything you know is wrong. Enjoy. (Make sure you have JavaScript disabled[1] and a good pop-up blocker.[2])

[edit] Footnotes

  1. Note that Mozilla Firefox can do this for individual sites using the NoScript extension to turn it off for sites that have annoying JavaScript use and turn it on for sites that need it for useful components to function.
  2. Current versions of the more common browsers have a pop-up blocker built-in, so they're good to go if kept up-to-date.
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