I agree, I really do.  My point was that the whole entire planet bases the "truth" on these TWO people, and that bothers me.  I am happy if that's their passion, but I don't choose to believe all of their crap...some of which IS.  Things that have been PROVEN, that they have said didn't happen, and others of which DID.  I think we are arguing two points of different positions, is all.  Those two people also think that "fake chemicals" and Monsanto is safe.   ?????  MSG and soy being just a COUPLE of their crap "opinions".  hose> And I am just wondering why EVERYBODY gives Snopes such credibility??? 
Doesn't everyone know that it is a married couple....so what, in the scheme
of things, but it is TWO PEOPLE       that you are basing your whole
knowledge on??? 

In the larger scope of things, isn't that how we gain a lot of our
knowledge?   When we don't have firsthand knowledge of something, don't
we generally turn to someone else who is more expert in the subject matter? 
Sure, it may be just two people, but if they have built their reputation on
having accurate facts and doing thorough research, why should I be any less
inclined to believe them than if I were to go digging through news archives
myself?

And to put this back on topic, this bears directly on the paleo diet.  I'm
not living in the paloelithic, nor do I know anyone who did.  So if I want to
know what they ate, I have to either do a ton of research and speculation for
myself, or I can refer to others who have done it already, and see what I think
of their conclusions.  If others have investigated the paleolithic period and
found that nobody ever ate a twinkie, and they never had a cavity, I might
therefore conclude that if I eat twinkies I'll get cavities.  Or I might
decide to eat a twinkie myself, and see whether I got a cavity (and if I
didn't, I might conclude that twinkies are fine, and the only reason
paleolithic people didn't eat them is because Hostess didn't have good
distribution back then).

The point is, that's part of how we expand our knowledge, by using the work
of others -- whether it's a team of scientists, or just a married couple who
like to investigate urban legends.  Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's
wrong.  That's the price we have to pay for skipping the direct experience.

--  Robert Kesterson
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