What's so bad about misinformation?

What's so bad about teenage pregnancy?

A systematic literature review identified the most frequently cited medical consequences of teenage pregnancy as anaemia, pregnancy-induced hypertension, low birth weight, prematurity, intra-uterine growth retardation and neonatal mortality. Critical appraisal suggested that increased risks of these outcomes were predominantly caused by the social, economic, and behavioural factors that predisp...

What is so bad about a big baby?

Web sites with misinformation about illicit drugs.

n August, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter to the editor by Boyer, Shannon and Hibberd entitled " Web Sites with Misinformation about Illicit Drugs ". 1 In this article, Boyer et al. criticize government websites for not competing successfully with " partisan " drug information web sites, name sites they consider partisan, and offer specific criticism of information found ...

Faults in Grids: Why are they so bad and What can be done about it?

Computational Grids have the potential to become the main execution platform for high performance and distributed applications. However, such systems are extremely complex and prone to failures. In this paper, we present a survey with the grid community on which several people shared their actual experience regarding fault treatment. The survey reveals that, nowadays, users have to be highly in...

So what ’ s so special about spatial ?

Geospatial information can act as a thread that can be used to integrate information from heterogeneous sources. It does so by exploiting common location information components that often exist across different domains. As such it has the potential to be a valuable resource in the implementation of the Semantic Web. This paper examines the challenges of adding a geospatial component to the Web,...