led me to his post, where I commented, and where I was APPALLED to see how many people were making blatantly unscientific statements about vaccines, with one even saying, "Just google it" (without providing any links) to introduce flat-wrong statements. A follow-up comment of mine was,
"+Larry Page I'm wondering if your head hurts as much as mine does when people say 'Just Google it' to recommend websites full of incorrect information not based on science or rational thought. More work still needs to be done in developing the public's research skills so that most people can distinguish reliable sources from unreliable sources that happen to turn up in an online search. "
Ouch. I guess the co-founder of Google is seeing an example in the comments to his Google+ post of how ignorant people stay ignorant even when they use the world's best search engine. I wonder what the search quality team at Google can do about issues like this.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4874293
led me to his post, where I commented, and where I was APPALLED to see how many people were making blatantly unscientific statements about vaccines, with one even saying, "Just google it" (without providing any links) to introduce flat-wrong statements. A follow-up comment of mine was,
"+Larry Page I'm wondering if your head hurts as much as mine does when people say 'Just Google it' to recommend websites full of incorrect information not based on science or rational thought. More work still needs to be done in developing the public's research skills so that most people can distinguish reliable sources from unreliable sources that happen to turn up in an online search. "
Ouch. I guess the co-founder of Google is seeing an example in the comments to his Google+ post of how ignorant people stay ignorant even when they use the world's best search engine. I wonder what the search quality team at Google can do about issues like this.