tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post2818983775500161170..comments2024-03-15T04:01:53.036-04:00Comments on Cranky Fitness: Online Health Research TipsCrabby McSlackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-76523267660303605462014-04-10T12:34:44.104-04:002014-04-10T12:34:44.104-04:00Another round of applause from a current librarian...Another round of applause from a current librarian! <br />I would also like to point out that a lot of public libraries offer online research resources for free. Anybody who is my age or older can remember having to go to the library, wade thru tons of Indexes and then wade thru shelves and shelves of journals and magazines - you can still do that but these are a great alternative. Please please please check your local library or visit your library's webpage to see how you can access them from anywhere - home, office, and/or your smart phone. <br />Remember this: “If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-91752042250681842462014-04-04T20:05:03.189-04:002014-04-04T20:05:03.189-04:00[applause from the former librarian]
Mary Anne in...[applause from the former librarian]<br /><br />Mary Anne in Kentuckysolarityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606487180967915130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-89513772622736652192014-04-04T10:40:29.948-04:002014-04-04T10:40:29.948-04:00Interesting - a website for all my bookmarks!!!
A...Interesting - a website for all my bookmarks!!!<br /><br />AnnF is right on the mark - critical thinking, even plain old thinking, has gone by the wayside and needs to be resurrected in our schools. I'm a very math-oriented person and it drives me crazy how innumerate we've become.<br /><br />Hopefully, we can overcome some of the misinformation as peer-reviewed research becomes more accessible (meaning "free'") to folks. I also think crowdsourcing will be useful too - but could be a can of worms as well.LuckyMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05281357528180512889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-58458077928053155622014-04-04T08:59:54.438-04:002014-04-04T08:59:54.438-04:00Honestly, I don't think common sense sells ver...Honestly, I don't think common sense sells very well! The "truth" is not very marketable!Tiffany Reisshttp://tiffanyreiss.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-18661381816586291062014-04-03T20:41:28.384-04:002014-04-03T20:41:28.384-04:00Anyone want to buy the hundreds of dollars of book...Anyone want to buy the hundreds of dollars of books I have on my shelves? Always tempted by the next latest greatest answer to the weight battle and always it comes back to common sense. WHY do we resist common sense????Sherri https://www.blogger.com/profile/04928191196045775058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-77908379092278105572014-04-03T16:17:46.479-04:002014-04-03T16:17:46.479-04:00Hi Tiffany! Thanks for the article. I only wish pe...Hi Tiffany! Thanks for the article. I only wish people would listen to you more consistently. I have a history (I am one of the few lucky ones - my history is over 15 years long & uneventful since the original surgery) of brain cancer, and you can imagine what sorts of scary ideas show up on the various forums I have participated in. People just want so badly to believe there is an answer, they will go along with extreme diets, massive doses of supplements of all sorts, off-label prescriptions - almost anything that will allow them to believe there is hope.<br /><br />How I wish there was a way to help people see how to sped that money and energy on things that would truly improve the quality of their lives! How I wish our government would take back the authority to regulate supplements!<br /><br />This is such an important message. I will do my best to pass it along.Death Ride Grandmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-49979264186521218502014-04-03T10:37:24.584-04:002014-04-03T10:37:24.584-04:00Ah, you've pushed one of my buttons. We should...Ah, you've pushed one of my buttons. We should actually start teaching critical thinking in elementary schools and make it a required course component in almost every high school course. English--how does the writer's background affect what he or she is saying? How can you analyze the arguments. Sciences--understand the scientific method, valid experiments, etc.. Math--Has to include statistics, including probability theory. Social sciences--how to understand communications and persuasion methods, how to learn from history. Okay, rant over.<br /><br />When you do a Google search, you can actually require that the search return only results from certain domains. For example<br /><br />"fish oil" site:.edu <br /><br />pulls up only articles from college/university sites. I really like that when I want to see a range of vetted information. Technically it adds a bias towards United States sites, but in virtually every case, that won't affect the validity of what you're looking for. <br /><br />I'd add the Mayo Clinic as another reliable site to search for health info.AnnFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12609475609752699677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-15885417332665165832014-04-03T10:29:48.373-04:002014-04-03T10:29:48.373-04:00This is so topical for me. This morning I was cha...This is so topical for me. This morning I was chatting with a group of university professors at my gym and we discussed what was the best procedure when an instructor or other professor supplies information in your area of expertise and the information is incorrect. From there we discussed inaccuracies and the presentation of opinion as fact on Wikipedia.<br />I find the area of health particularly frustrating when I am trying to research.Cindyhttp://fatchicksfitness.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-30289920231422379182014-04-03T08:59:44.777-04:002014-04-03T08:59:44.777-04:00Yes, i do look at the web -- and then i do more re...Yes, i do look at the web -- and then i do more research, and i ask my dad, the doctor, for his opinion (he's retired but still reads the journals and keeps up, he's an inspiration as a lifelong learner). Of course, i run it by my own doc as well.<br /><br />Another thing i keep in mind, as well as the "if it sounds to good to be true, it is" axiom, is that just as not everyone benefits from the same medicine (the drug that works for a husband's blood pressure might not work for his wife, or his brother), not everyone gets the same benefits from the same supplements. After asking your doc, try it. If it works for you, great! If not, try something else.messymimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com