If you can't trust Snopes. com, who can you trust?

1 One of the "articles" I recently read on Snopes was done by a Frosh in college. I didn't trust her judgment on whatever cleaning tip email I'd looked up...that's for sure! .

2 That email sounds like it's coming from somebody who wants to spread some BS to you. Not that you should trust something solely because you read it on Snopes. That would be the fallacy of false authority, and they have a whole page dedicated to the subject:snopes.com/lost/false.aspAnd to underscore it, they have their Lost Legends:snopes.com/lost/lost.aspSnopes is pretty good about citing its sources.

If you want to know for certain, you double-check the sources, until you find something you can reasonably believe to be a primary source of the information. Ultimately, there are epistemological problems of how you can ever know anything is true, but that's kind of a separate issue. If it comes down to somebody trying to spread some unlikely-sounding stuff and discrediting Snopes to support it, it should trigger your BS detector.

3 In my opinion Snopes is pretty accurate, but they should not be trusted 100% nor should anyone on the internet. There are no truths on the internet and the word internet does not contain truth. There are other sites that do the same service: About.Com; Truth or Fiction, etc.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.