Have you heard of meat water? Yes, it's true, water made to taste like meat. It even has a website, check it out. And you can believe me because I told you. But if for some reason you don't think I'm a reputable source of information (I don't know why you would...) you can check out the AOL.com article. Take your time, read it... Now do you believe me?
I hope that at some point your common sense kicks in and you realize; just because sites like AOL news and yahoo are trolling the internet for stories that will generate massive amounts of clicks, doesn't mean they're true. Just because CNN or Fox or any other news site pastes their logo over the story does not give it any sort of legitimacy. First of all, I'd like to out the (probably not even legal-aged) Monica Garske; thanks for your fantastic fact-finding. Clearly, internet news reporting is so easy they can hire teenagers to do it. Except that Ms. Garske couldn't possibly be a teenager because in school teenagers have it banged into their heads that internet sources have to be backed up by some sort of outside evidence. Seriously folks, though it does provide a good laugh, this small news story is a great example of how little thought internet news reporters put into what their writing.
The moral of the story? The internet, in case anyone has forgotten, is not a storage place for facts. Just because something has a website does not make it real. For the majority of the bullshit out there, the only defense is simple common sense. For everything else, well, I guess you're on your own.
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