Is it wrong to share information?

Hmm...well I agree with you that the only way for us to learn anything is by sharing information...and filtering out what turns out to be false. In that sense I think your posts were justified and understandable. But here's where I see the problem...and this is just from the short amount you wrote here so there may be more details I don't know. First it's against the guidelines to purposely post duplicate discussions on the same topic. If you had two discussions about this that could have led to the deletions. Secondly, while copy/paste is allowed, we're supposed to add our own thoughts to things we copy/paste here. You said you got the information as an e-mail so maybe they got deleted because you didn't add anything of your own. And my third thought is...since the claim turned out to be false the discussions may have been considered to be speading an urban legend. While I don't believe there is anything specific in the guidelines against that, it's generally frowned upon for obvious reasons. As to your final question things are as reliable as people want them to be. In the case of the chicken wings/necks, if someone felt very strongly about it they probably could find a study supporting the claim...which would then create confusion about whether the claim was true or not. !000 studies could say it is false but it only takes one study to cast doubt.

I was trying to read your discussion and saw that it had been deleted! I checked the guidelines to see what was the violation. I could not finish reading your post, only the part that showed up in my email, so I do not know exactly what is was that you did wrong. Probably was the duplication of posts! Snopes i good enough, but I have found information that snopes said was false, yet it was actually controversial information that some scientists said was true and some said was false!

You should always, always verify things you receive by email. There are many websites like www.snopes.com that have valid proof that a claim is true or false. You can even verify that information if you are worried about its validity.

Even if the information turns out not to be validated, why is the discussion deleted? What about those who write about religious belief, what if they turn out to be wrong, are their discussions deleted too? What a silly thing to do. Someone must have taken the time to both check out the information and report their findings to mylot.. M,y advice to them is to get a life keep on posting blessed be

I think you are just concerned and that's why you created a discussion about "The danger of eating chicken wings". There is nothing wrong in being concerned, ellie26. Luckily, the information was proved to be false, so there is no imposing threat once we enjoyed our favorite treat, the chicken wings. The moral of the story is, we just don't need to believe immediately but confirm the information relayed to us as well.

There is nothing wrong with sharing information. There is something wrong with sharing false information, IF you know of a site to check it out to make sure it is accurate. snopes.com is the one I use. Being offensive, well I don't know about that, I don't think it is offensive when making a mistake or sharing info. The problem is when those morons that started the false info to begin with sent it out. Many times it has caused harm. It also causes fear, panic and that can lead to harm. I was ignorant about snopes.com and would pass on emails, until one day, my niece wrote to me, telling me about the email I had sent her. Apparently one of her friends used one of the "remedies" and ended up in the hospital. It was because I had forwarded it on to my niece, and she onto her friends. Now, if I get an email with stuff like that, or even "stories" I check it out first, then, if all the addresses are showing from the previous emailers, I send on the correct information and the link to the page proving the falsehood. As far as I am concerned, there isn't enough investigations on these hoax emails. Considering the safety factor, one would think there would be more resources to fact find.

I usually check information out before I write about it and snopes is a good site but I also use urban legends because that's what a lot of the information we hear about is. Don't worry about any information being wrong it happens to the best of us.

I do not think so. We can get a lot fo good from sharing the information. We can know a lot of new knowledge from that way. But some people think that sharing will make them lose the advantage in the comprtition. I think that kind of idea can not be accepted. If you do not like to share yours with other people, you aslo can not get something useful from other, so what you have is small, can not compared with other group.

There is nothing wrong wish sharing information, just check it out before you send it. Its not hard to do, and there's always going to be someone who believed what you sent and didn't find out later that it was proved false. snopes.com is the best site to check for things that may seem pretty far out there.