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A 5 page review of two web sites which present information on depression. The author emphasizes there is indeed vast volumes of valuable information on the World Wide Web but cautions that you must be careful of your source. Even web sites sponsored by advisory boards of true experts in a particular subject can provide biased information. A Review of DrKoop.com and Zoloft.com is provided to demonstrate those points. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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The World Wide Web can be a phenomenal research resource. It can also, however, be a haven for
inaccurate and biased information. Posen (2001) recognizes that there is indeed vast volumes of valuable information on the World Wide Web but, wisely, he cautions that you must be
careful of your source. Even web sites sponsored by advisory boards of true experts in a particular subject, he warns, can provide biased information. This warning is easier
to understand when the frequent connection of so-called experts with funding sources (funding sources with a definitive interest in presenting information in a certain light) is recognized.
As though the accuracy of information at any one time isnt enough to be concerned about, the student must take note that web sites
are also notorious for changing content over time. Consider one site referenced in Les Posens 2001 article delineating the value of the web in terms of defining and treating
depression. Although the article references http://familytherapynetwork.com/feat4.html as a site containing research on depression funded by grant monies from pharmaceutical companies, at the time of this paper the site had
changed content completely. It is now a site extolling the virtues of acupuncture in treating depression and anxiety. A researcher might inadvertently come to associate a site with
accurate information only to learn that the site has changed both in content and accuracy from one time to another. DrKoop.com provides an
excellent example of the connection between web information and funding sources. On the page on depression titled "Zoloft Found Safe, Effective in Children" the viewer is blasted with three
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