May 7, 2009

Check rumors with Snopes.com

Snopes.com is a great site to check rumors or urban legends you hear on TV or receive online. The staff does its best to find evidence (which is cited) to verify urban legends. It categorizes the stories by color:
  • White - complete urban legend
  • Green - true (preponderance of evidence to back up), or based on true story
  • Yellow - disputed claims, factual items which the available evidence is too contradictory or insufficient
  • Red - claims which cannot be established as true by a preponderance of (reliable) evidence.
  • Multi-colored - identify claims which are a mixture of truth and falsehood.