An anonymous person identified as Sara Godward <[log in to unmask]>
notes on the
>Subject: Re: An evolving professional duty to the Web
>I think we should be cautious about encouraging the information
>explosion.
Where have you _been_?
Encourage it? You would need something massively serious to even slow
it down. Try a global EMP from the subcontinent for instance.
Still, you can use the internet to present to the world your view that
we should not communicate our notes to each other if you choose<g>
>Peer review may be flawed and systematic review may be inappropriate
>(and/or flawed) but you can put more trust in a journal article (of
>whatever design) in its original state than an (anonymous) individual's
>notes and queries.
Depends on the journal and the individual. ANonymous? Many of the
people on this list have seen each other, or each others' pictures,
know where we work and so on.
No Web page which does not have a link to the author is reliable, IMHO.
but this is just a section of teh HONCode.
>Or is the intention to have a series of monitored web pages of distilled
>evidence?
Please feel free to distill, monitor etc.
Ideally you would distill evidence on something which you had monitored
the Web to find out what is there, and found a dearth of useful and
credible evidence.
>Mind you, keeping track of the current distilled evidence / secondary
>data
>sources is increasingly difficult.
Impossible, I think, not difficult.
Hence the occasional centralist heresyof control (read limitation)
surfacing
>Which (if any?) of the current sources of summary evidence does everyone
>find most useful?
HON
Pubmed
At least one person has found my page on Poland Syndrome most useful,
and sent a very warm fuzzy e-mail to me as a result. I won't tell you
the URL, search the web.
>>Supposing you, as a doctor, decide to research something in order to
>>manage a patient.
>>
>>Going to the Web you find nothing much of use or note.
>>
>>You therefore make searches in other ways, coming in the end to have a
>>small set of notes which have satisfied your need at that time.
>>
>>IMHO you now have a duty to place those on the Web.
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