If you believe that the 1969 Apollo moon landing was staged in Hollywood; that Marilyn Monroe was killed by the Kennedy family and Lady Diana by the royal family ...
If you believe that FDR allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor to facilitate America's entry into World War II and the Bush administration brought down the Twin Towers with explosive charges and holograms in order to provoke a war for oil ...
If you believe that President Obama was born in Kenya and educated in a Madrassa and is rushing through health care reform because he knows he is about to be discovered as an Islamic terrorist mole ...
If you believe that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and their descendant is a woman living in Paris, welcome to Michelle Obama's vegetable garden, where the cabbage heads are human.
In June, Mother Jones magazine wrote that the National Park Service had tested the soil before the White House garden was planted and found lead levels of 93 parts per million and called the levels toxic.
A Web site called Sludge Watch contacted me to report that the lead levels were the result of sludge dumped on the White House lawn by the Clintons to improve grass growth.
Almost immediately, Obama Foodorama, a well-crafted and thoroughly reported blog about everything "food" in this White House, from presidential birthday cakes to the First Lady's campaign for healthy eating and cooking, debunked the story.
Blogger Eddie Gehman Kohan contacted three soil scientists, all of whom dismissed 93 ppm as "ridiculously low" for an urban garden and said no harm could come from humans eating from that garden even if they consumed handfuls of the dirt itself.
If indeed sludge had been used to fertilize the lawn - a practice used in the 1980s - any harm would have dissipated in the decades since, the scientists said.
But, speaking of fertile soil, the Internet is a place where misinformation lives forever, and the story of "Michelle's Toxic Veggie Garden," will not die.
Every day since the Mother Jones story in June, another blog, Web site, newsletter or crackpot - even legitimate publications here and abroad - regurgitates the toxic garden story and adds to it so that now we read that Mrs. Obama will not allow her family to eat from the garden and, since the produce is being sent to Miriam's Kitchen in Washington to feed the poor, innocent children will have their brain development and their futures stunted by the lead levels in that food.
