Medical Misinformation on the Web: Mitigation or Control? David B. Resnik AssociateProj~ssorofPhilosophyand Director, The Centerfbr theAdvancement ofEthics University of WyomingLaramie, WY82071-3392 resnik@uwyo.edu f you have a medical question, your are likely to find more answers than you want or need if you explore cyberspace. Like all new technologies, the world wide web has both good and bad effects. The web can enhance good medicine or promote quackery; it can transmit medical information or purvey misinformation; it can assist medical education or catalyze medical ignorance; it can be used to aid or exploit the ill. If you have cancer, a quick survey can take you to the following websites: www.kalamark.com/essiac/surest/html The Surest Ever Cancer Cure. This site provides you with information about Royal Rifes's cancer cure and Rife technologies. Rife (18881971) was a molecular biologist who believed that all life forms oscillate at specific frequencies, and he postulated that cells, viruses and bacteria could be destroyed by generating dissonant energy waves. The site notes that Rife's work was "wickedly suppressed by a cabal of mainstream medical interests" but that his cure is now available. Another Rife website, www.commercial- directory.com/health/rife.html, claims that there is now scientific evidence that Rife's technologies
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Medical misinformation on the Web: mitigation or control?
Resnik, David B.
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