“The truth is out there.” This might be the tagline from the popular 1990 TV series The X-files, but if you do your due diligent search on-line, you can come up with numerous credible and trustworthy sources. The problem is that the internet contains an overabundance of sites, that just like The X-files, are made up of decent writing and a great deal of imagination. Our world of copious information is just a click away, so as I clicked away at the suggested sites, I found myself quite amused at the creatively deceptive tactics employed by theses URL’s.
1. Ban Di-hydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org/
The Dihydrogen Monoxide site was creative, but not an actually a valid site. It starts with using a .Org site for its domain which are used by non-profit organizations. The DHMO.org used words such as Special Reports, environment and cancer, then underlined them and changed their color to create a scare tactic of sorts. This is the perfect example how you must research your sites and the information it contains. The Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax has been going on for some time. When using the checklist that was suggested by the article we reviewed. The answer to “Is the information consistent with other published material on the topic?” was a resounding NO. …show more content…
Train your cat: http://www.yogakitty.com/ The Yogakitty.com was truly hysterical and quite obviously a farce comedy site. It was quite amusing to see the videos in different languages. It made me smile and brought a giggle to my day. I’m glad this was on the list of sites to research. I did not do much digging into the validity of Yogakitty.com as this was for all purposes a site created to give us an obvious good
1. Ban Di-hydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org/
The Dihydrogen Monoxide site was creative, but not an actually a valid site. It starts with using a .Org site for its domain which are used by non-profit organizations. The DHMO.org used words such as Special Reports, environment and cancer, then underlined them and changed their color to create a scare tactic of sorts. This is the perfect example how you must research your sites and the information it contains. The Dihydrogen Monoxide hoax has been going on for some time. When using the checklist that was suggested by the article we reviewed. The answer to “Is the information consistent with other published material on the topic?” was a resounding NO. …show more content…
Train your cat: http://www.yogakitty.com/ The Yogakitty.com was truly hysterical and quite obviously a farce comedy site. It was quite amusing to see the videos in different languages. It made me smile and brought a giggle to my day. I’m glad this was on the list of sites to research. I did not do much digging into the validity of Yogakitty.com as this was for all purposes a site created to give us an obvious good