snopes.com vs. my.webmd.com
Folk, I'd like to share something with you pertaining to the topic I
posted just yesterday about `Cancer News from Johns Hopkins'. I
received via email from an uncle, read over it and then posted the
information on several of the epilepsy support groups I am a member
with. I later looked over the replies and read over the weblinks
people provided, which explained the truth about it. So my apologies
go out to everyone. But something that got to me came from one of
the other groups, and here is what was posted...

"I am always somewhat skeptical of things like this, so I often
check them on snopes.com, which investigates the kinds of 'news'
items like this that circulate around. I encourage you to read what
they have to say about it at
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/plastic.htm, then make your own
decision.

We must always be careful to consider the information we read. I
work in an industry which is often attacked, often the 'bad guy',
and I well know that much of what is presented about our products is
flat out wrong. So by that token, I am careful to consider what is
presented about other industries."

This has not been the only time that someone has brought to my
attention that things need to be checked into through snopes.com.
Well, because of what that individual posted, something came into my
mind this morning that maybe some of the snooping needs to be
preformed on snopes.com itself. So here is what I did.

I went to the snopes.com website, locate their search box and type
in the word epilepsy. Then click on the `GO' button and see what the
results turn out to be. And here's one for you...
[www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/seizure.htm
Claim: episode of the popular kid's TV show Pokemon caused over
600 young children in Japan to have epileptic attacks.
Status: False
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1999]

Now, here is a website I signed up a while back to receive free
newsletters because I enjoy information they provide about epilepsy
and that is through
my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/epilepsy/default.h
tm
Well, as it turns out, one of the recent bits of information
recently provided in their news is titled...
Avoiding 'Pokemon' Seizures From TV, Video Games: Rapidly Flashing
Lights May Trigger Rare Seizures, Experts Report
By Miranda Hitti WebMD Medical News; Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario,
MD on Tuesday, September 20, 2005
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/112/110307.htm
And BTW, check out the information on the webmd.com site because it
has some good guidelines about people with photosensitive epilepsy.

Two reports pertaining to the same thing, but the reports are 6
years apart. Which one would you believe is more accurate and
truthful, snopes.com or webmd.com?

What I am going to do from now on is keeping email information
warnings to myself and investigate it to see how accurate it really
turns out to be. After I read over the warning story I tossed out
all of my recycled plastic bottles refilled with water and juices,
which I had stored in my freezer. But now I'm going to collect some
more and do like I was doing beforehand.

Bruce