COLLEGE STATION - What could be coming from the Surgeon General:
"Warning -- What You Read on the Web Could be Hazardous to Your
Health." There is yet no disclaimer on health web sites that
contain a Surgeon General's warning that what you read can be
harmful, but perhaps there should be. Health web sites can be
downright unhealthy. Health web sites can have information that
is inaccurate, misleading, unproven and even false, and many of
them aren't worth the eyestrain it takes to read them, according
to a study by a Texas A&M University professor. Dr. Steve
Dorman, professor of health and kinesiology, has studied the
vast array of health web sites and has reached this conclusion:
reader beware. "The basic problem is one of accountability -
there is none," says Dorman, whose study has been previously
published in the Journal of School Health. "The freedom of the
Internet means that anybody can say anything. There is no
governing body that acts as a gatekeeper of Web pages, and we
found that a lot of health in