Sunday, September 26, 2010
Scholarly Sources
Many sources can be counted as reliable. For my resources I mainly choose to focus on scholarly journal articles. These are counted as reliable because they are peer-reviewed by experts in the field in question to increase their validity. These articles go through a rigorous review process that can sometimes take years (much to the assured frustration of the author I am sure) and always present thorough background and sources as to where they received their facts from. A few examples of scholarly journals are "Health Education Research", "Applied and Preventative Psychology" and "American Journal of Public Health".
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This and the two previous posts provide an excellent review of not just credible vs. not credible sites but those "in between" such as CNN. Your point about fact checking and verifying the information is one that most people don't practice. Of course, using a peer-reviewed research journal is always best but when that's not possible, counting on more than one news source helps to verify that two separate reporters interpreted or quoted the information in the same way. Your specific example about condom use, for example, is one in which different parties/organizations could "spin" information to serve their best interest...so the example was a good one.
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