The "Markle" email says that there is a conspiracy between the FDA and the producers of aspartame, and the conspiracy theory has become a canonical example discussed on several Internet conspiracy theory and urban legend websites.Kiss My Aspartame. False. Snopes.com, David G. Hattan,David Hattan, LinkedIn Acting Director, Division of Health Effects Evaluation, 8 June 2015 Although most of the allegations of this theory contradict the bulk of medical evidence, the misinformation has spread around the world as chain emails since mid-December 1998, influencing many websites as an urban legend that continues to scare consumers. The Media Awareness Network featured one version of it in a tutorial on how to determine the credibility of a web page. The tutorial implied that the "Markle" letter was not credible and stated that it should not be used as an authoritative source of information. – An exercise in deconstructing a web page to determine its credibility as a source of information, using the aspartame controversy as the example.
