Your Ammunition Against False Urban Legends: Snopes
There are just thousands of urban legends that float around. These stories are tales that you’ve heard from many people, all of whom tell it as “a friend of a friend’s uncle” or some similarly long connection, just enough that you don’t know them. Usually this is actually the person that told them the story, but of course the person telling the story helps add legitimacy to the story that’s supposed to be a true one by claiming that it happened to someone close to them. This is a classic logical fallacy, as those who have studied any rhetoric will know. It’s a so called “Appeal to Authority,” and their authority in telling the story this time comes from the fact that they apparently know the person that it happened to.
In disproving urban legends Wikipedia can’t always be helpful. Unlike when you are disputing a fact, like when the era for contemporary furniture really began — was it 50 years ago, or 1950 — you can use Wikipedia because it’s often up for speculation and can be proved. Snopes however is the website that you need to use in order to deem if a tale is true or false. It’ll also tell you just how old the story is, which will help you to undermine anyone’s claim that it happened last week. And it’ll offer a number of different ways that the story has been changed over the years. It’ll also tell you where the story came from original so you can disprove it.
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