I think it's a better idea for people to promote the following: 'oh, that article on killer pythons? Everyone's saying that's a crock, they're not really dangerous'.

Never let it stand when someone prints something like that. Make it widely known that it's a joke, provide the correct information, and sound intelligent doing so. If there's one copy of the article without comments, and 50 copies of it with comments calling it a crock, which one are people most likely to read? (One of the 50 copies, of course).

We need to change what everyone knows by loudly denying the bad information that's being put out there. We can't do that if we ignore it and never post links to it. Right now, 'everyone knows' snakes are dangerous. The only way to fix that is to overwhelm the noise out there with our own noise.