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To: Krowbar who wrote (15716)	1/19/1998 3:06:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (3) of 108807

Just what is wrong with doing research on the web? I think that it is the most powerful way to find information that there is. Is an article on the web less valid than one in a newspaper? Neither is valid, if you're talking real research. Articles published in newspapers (and the same sort of things published online) tend usually to have been written for public consumption. A friend of mine--a biochemist--finds articles in the "medical" section of newspapers generally hilarious. Often critical information gets chopped by the editor; often the journalist writing the piece has an imperfect understanding of what he's writing about, and oversimplifies (or just plain gets things wrong). Nor do articles of this type come with the kind of scholarly apparatus that would permit one to form some kind of judgment about their accuracy and seriousness of purpose. Moreover, much online stuff comes from extremely biased sources, and these sources don't always openly declare their bias. I think the Web has great potential as a genuine research tool, but we ain't there yet. Not by a longshot.

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