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Monday, October 30, 2006

Not surprising, and a reason for us to be teaching proper online evaluation

Pew Internet: Online Health Search 2006

Fully three-quarters of health seekers say they check the source and date “only sometimes,” “hardly ever,” or “never,” which translates to about 85 million Americans gathering health advice online without consistently examining the quality indicators of the information they find.

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