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🗓️ 13 November 2012
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How to tell whether a science article on the web is reliable or not.
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0:00.0 | People all the time ask me if some particular website is reliable or not. |
0:08.0 | Websites, including news sites, come and go so quickly these days that who can keep up? |
0:13.2 | It's not really practical to make a list of which ones are good, so today I've got |
0:18.0 | for you a checklist of things you can look for on any website to get a pretty darn good idea |
0:24.0 | of its reliability. |
0:26.4 | That's coming up next on Skeptoid. |
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1:17.3 | You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. How to tell a good website |
1:24.0 | from a crap website? It's been said that searching for information on the internet is like |
1:29.6 | drinking from a fire hose. There's a mind-boggling amount of information published that's |
1:34.1 | freely available to anyone and everyone. The internet grows so quickly that every time you open |
1:39.7 | your web browser, you've got direct access to the largest compilation of information in history. |
1:45.5 | Bigger than all the books and all the libraries and all the world, and at current rates, |
1:49.4 | it's growing by 5% every month. Search for information on any given subject in your presented |
1:55.7 | with more options than anyone can know what to do with. So when the average person wants to learn |
2:01.3 | some decent information, how can you tell whether the website you found is giving you good info |
2:06.9 | or giving you crap? Today, we'll find out. We're going to look at three categories of tools for |
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