Mr. Keen's Pseudoscience Research

When Evaluating Websites!

Look For:
NEIGHBORHOOD/URL -
.gov  .edu   .org   .com

BACKGROUND - Who?
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER -  
  About us; Who we are; 
About; Our Mission
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BIAS - message - how? -
 type, sources, language,
pt. of view, coverage

AUTHOR -Authority? How can you tell? -
Background? Trustworthy? Credentials?

Purpose of site? -
sell, inform, persuade  
mission?  partisan?

SEARCH TIPS
Use  AND to Limit results
reflexology AND pseudoscience
homeopathy AND medicine
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Use "quotes" to group more than 1 word:
"folk remedies"
"alternative medicine"

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Library Catalog:

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Databases:

PW: learn

     USE:  
Powersearch 
REFINE by using
Content Types
and Limiters
by 
Subject; Publication Titles; etc.

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Below is a Checklist for Web Site Evaluation 

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