Saturday, September 30, 2006

Day 35 Quack Watch

The internet has been so awesome for information for me. Whenever I learn anything new or anecdotal from someone, I jot it down and as soon as I get home I start surfing. I also take notes at all my Drs appointments and from the all articles that I read in the waiting room. So at home I am constantly surfing and googling (is that a real word?).
It is amazing how many "experts" are out there. A really odd web site is called Quack Watch and it warns cancer patients away from trendy alternative methods. I can't tell if this web site supports accupuncture at all, or if it is ok as a complement to traditional treatment. Also, it doesn't seem to have any actual information of its own. The entire web site is devoted to how wrong everyone else method of treatment is, but its hard tell what treatment method they would support.
Another odd thing about internet surfing is that some of the web pages that you can stumble across may not have been updated for years, but you can't always tell. A few have discussion boards and the last posting may have been a decade ago.
There is certainly an addiction to suring and a frustration that can occur when you surf around although you are sure that there are pages devoted to your topic, you keep finding the wrong thing, or a store you are looking for is located in Ireland, or the recipe you want you can find only in Russian.

1 comment:

jules said...

I have heard about Quackwatch, they seem to exist just to try to stop any alternative medicine, part of the whole big pharma thing.