I have become a member of an online magazine which is about healthy life styles and health promotion. I really can’t remember how or when I became a member but I really don’t care since all I receive is e-articles about nutrients everyday.
I was reading this article about probiotics and their benefits in food. The article was pretty interesting and the suggestions seemed logical and “sciency” as some may say. I usually check the author and his/her bio to check for the article’s credibility. But when I went to the actual website I couldn’t find anything about the author of the article. Underneath the article, there was a section where people could ask their questions and the author of the article would answer them right next to it. Some of the questions were quiet simple and straight forward. However some were quite tricky and needed professional opinions. As I was checking the answers I realized some of these answers did not seem quite right. So I started googling the answers and I referred to my text books and lecture notes. I noticed that a couple of those answers were wrong but apparently no one had noticed them. So I wrote s note in the same page and corrected his answers. The next day when I checked the page again, I saw my post was deleted!
My concern is not that my post was deleted from that page. I am concern that how internet has made it accessible for everyone to share their information, right or wrong, show it as actual professional opinion and many people don’t really care who has made those statements. They search for something on internet and some may go for the first thing that pops on their page. People need to learn to question health care professionals’ credibility and make a right decision when it comes to accepting professionals suggestions from others. Now I know, the next time before I start reading an article I will search or author’s credibility first!
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