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HLTH 112: Holistic Health and Healing

Why evaluate websites?

Why it is important to evaluate Internet sites?

  • Anyone can create and publish a website, regardless of subject expertise or knowledge
  • Professional looking sites are easy to create thanks to webpage creation software
  • No standards exist to ensure the quality and accuracy of information on a webpage
  • No review process for websites like those required for Academic print and electronic resources
  • Well-known trustworthy news sites sometime repost blog entries with out their usual fact-checking
  • Many websites are created to persuade people by playing on personal bias, fear, or other strong emotions

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