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Originally Posted by GoNative
Because information is not just information. This is one of the big issues with information from the internet. Because anyone, anywhere can publish anything they want with absolutely no oversight of the veracity of their claims then one of the great challenges these days is to be able to discern if you are being told the truth or anything close to it. If it's from some of the most respected news outlets in the world like for instance the BBC then you at least have some measure of assurance that they are going to try and verify the information they release is correct. If on the other hand you watch Fox news or if in the UK you read the The Sun you can be pretty sure that what you hear and read is mostly crap. If you search some obscure internet blogs where the people writing are basically anonymous and you have no clear indication of their credentials or how exactly they get their information then there is little if anything they write that you could trust. It is especially hard to find anything remotely accurate about science from most internet blogs. Half the degrees these people have are from some obscure right wing, fundamentalist Christian university in the deep south of the US. For $500 you can get a doctorate to put in front of your name as well! It's one of the reasons there is so much misinformation about things like global warming and also why there is so much misinformation about what is occurring in Japan.
I'm agressive because there's a little group of people like you who have only recently started posting on this forum and purely in response to the crisis here. You know nothing about Japan. You know nothing about the situation here besides what information you choose to gleam from here and there. And your previous link shows the calibre of sites you are choosing to get informaiton from. I don't know what it is but people like you are suddenly coming out of the woodwork on this forum and I for one am not appreaciative of your naive insights and attempts at creating more fear in this country. That's why I'm agressive.
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i'm with ya on this one. the more i read the less i find out. and now the only thing i know for sure is that i can't believe anything. it so happens that i'm one of those who registered on this forum to find out the validity of some of the stuff i'm hearing about the situation over there. in the end i was foolish to come to a message board for credible information. after all, as you say, this is the internet.