Posted by yxibow on April 3, 2008, at 0:47:31
In reply to Re: Is The Internet Not To Be Believed or Which Sites?, posted by Phillipa on March 31, 2008, at 19:14:22
> Thanks guys as I'm so gullible and believe so much. Was always told not street smart so to speak. Will try to search the better sites. I really do appreciate the information. Love Phillipa
Oh I wouldn't be so hard on yourself, there are a lot of sites out there though as mentioned that are rather less than reliable.
Sites that adhere to HON (Health on the Net) are supposed to adhere to a certain set of health ethics.
Large scale medical sites that have advisory medical boards such as eMedicine/WebMD are usually trustful though they can have less than medically based "alternative" information deeply hidden in usually from one common feed (if you want to believe in them, you're more than welcome). But largely reliable.
And of course as said PubMed, and if you are in university or have access for other reasons, some of the normally unavailable articles can be available (however posting an entire article would not be "fair use").
Wikipedia, while a great collaboration of very detailed articles especially in the technology and chemical sectors has starting places for medication, and a good quick lookup, with guidelines like a regular scientific journal having sources, is probably that, a nice place to eternally browse if you're bored and not every article is going to be spot on. Of course this can be said about any encyclopedia.But I would agree, sites with flash banners and 5 for the price of 3, don't separate science (if there is any there) from selling.
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