From Jon Garfunkel on March 1, 2006 at 10:34 PM
Well, "boorish" is a poor choice of words as it is inaccurate. And the "bird flu" example is also problematic, since the Google search results on it are a veritable who's who of respected media sites and official governmental departments:
CDC (x2), WHO (x2), MSNBC, BBC (x2), NIH, Nature (x2), Wikipedia (x2), New Scientist Magazine, State.gov, NY Times, UK Dept. of Health, SciDev.net, Mayo Clinic, PandemicFlu.gov, NPR, CNN (x2), IHT...
NPR has even sponsored the term on Google, and ABC News has sponsored it on Yahoo.
It takes me till link #60 to find a factory-farmed website, www.avianbirdflu.com. (though a Canada-based "drug delivery" website makes it to #8 on MSN).
As for "colloidal silver," yes, the results are chock fool of snake oil salesmen. But the #1 link on Google is to quackwatch.org.
So I'm curious just which legitimate news publishers are missing the boat here. I'll submit something to the reader's blog.
Well, "boorish" is a poor choice of words as it is inaccurate. And the "bird flu" example is also problematic, since the Google search results on it are a veritable who's who of respected media sites and official governmental departments:
CDC (x2), WHO (x2), MSNBC, BBC (x2), NIH, Nature (x2), Wikipedia (x2), New Scientist Magazine, State.gov, NY Times, UK Dept. of Health, SciDev.net, Mayo Clinic, PandemicFlu.gov, NPR, CNN (x2), IHT...
NPR has even sponsored the term on Google, and ABC News has sponsored it on Yahoo.
It takes me till link #60 to find a factory-farmed website, www.avianbirdflu.com. (though a Canada-based "drug delivery" website makes it to #8 on MSN).
As for "colloidal silver," yes, the results are chock fool of snake oil salesmen. But the #1 link on Google is to quackwatch.org.
So I'm curious just which legitimate news publishers are missing the boat here. I'll submit something to the reader's blog.