Re: verifying info on Wiki...

[Guest guest]

From my experiences, the references at the bottom are a good start. If you use

Google advance search, you can usually find the reference or at least abstract.

If you find the complete reference, then it usually has other references you can

look up. The abstract or report may also use terms common to the researchers and

relative to that study that you can use in searches. Getting the right search

terms is 90% of the work. I also do patent searches on the subject. Often the

studies generate patents that provide additional info not given in the study. As

with the study, the patent can also provide references to other patents or

unique search terms that relate to the subject. One problem with searches is

that you usually only search for the expected or desired outcome. You should

also perform searches looking alternate or opposite (usually negative) results.

- Steve

From: Coconut Oil

[mailto:Coconut Oil ] On Behalf Of Don

Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:19 AM

Coconut Oil

Subject: EXT : verifying info on Wiki...

Just wondering how / what priocess you use to verify the info there.

Do you check the references at the bottom?

Sometimes it is just por reasioning...if A - B and

C are true...G may not necessarily follow...

d

[Guest guest]

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<snip> One problem with searches is that you usually only search for the

expected or desired outcome. You should also perform searches looking alternate

or opposite (usually negative) results.

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> - Steve

Yes - VERY important

Dee

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> From: Coconut Oil

[mailto:Coconut Oil ] On Behalf Of Don

> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:19 AM

> Coconut Oil

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> Just wondering how / what priocess you use to verify the info there.

> Do you check the references at the bottom?

> Sometimes it is just por reasioning...if A - B and

> C are true...G may not necessarily follow...

> d

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[Guest guest]

What I do to verify information depends on the article. Sometimes I do a couple

of Gooogle searches to find more articles on the subject before I do the

specific PubMed searches. I also try for references that might not be in Pubmed

because I know the US government doesn't index huge amounts of valid data,

particularly food-as-medicine data.

If the WIKI opinion column has cited references to support the claim I usually

take a look, but it seems though that most of the opinion articles cite other

peoples' opinion columns. The cholesterol " controversy " on the street for

example results because of a dearth of data. If we were on the same page there

would be no controversy IMO.

all good,

Duncan

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> Just wondering how / what priocess you use to verify the info there.

> Do you check the references at the bottom?

> Sometimes it is just por reasioning...if A - B and

> C are true...G may not necessarily follow...

> d

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