This chap made a fairly long blog post about being mislead by Gullible.info.
An entire website of mostly plausible factoids, however, doesn't teach a person do or expect good research from people who present factoids. Personally, once I figured out that the site was just a series of lies, I lost interest in it and went looking for new sources of fun trivia.
I feel foolish, of course, for not figuring the site out sooner and sending some of the statements to friends assuming they were true. (Apologies, everyone!) I am irritated at having been tricked as well. And I'm also rankled a little at the condescending, cynical nature of the creator's statements.
Yes, ha ha, I believed the site. Tres amusant.
Again, I conceed that at some point, one would have to do some additional research or ask for verification and that's just what I did. But have I learned this overarching lesson to question everything I see on the internet? Not really. I'm just kind of irritated by that guy.
I'd write back a full response, but I think I've touched on all the issues that he brought up before Here and here.
