Dr. Robert Whitfield explains why it's hard to trust health information online. Too many sources claim to have answers, and even when proven solutions exist, the noise makes it difficult to find them. He argues we need better ways to judge what's credible, though building that system is complicated.
To your point, it's going to become even more— well, it's certainly going to be more complicated for the patient, the client, the person trying to find the information, because I get asked all the time questions that they do have answers. And They're credible, proven answers. But because of the number of ways people gather information, it's very confusing to them to identify a credible source of information because it's coming at them from so many directions, from so many sources, I guess. Mm-hmm. Say. And it's definitely something that should be— and I don't know how to vet these things— it should be managed in a way that's easier for the person who's viewing it to understand the credibility of the source. But even that's really fraught with problems to me.
