RELS-268: Problems in Biomedical Ethics

When it comes to finding information on a subject, most people start with tools like Google and Wikipedia. There are numerous advantages to this approach, such as...

• there is plenty of content
• it is easy to search
• content is current/timely

However, there are drawbacks that need to be considered.

• the volume of information can be overwhelming
• there can be a lot of irrelevant retrieval
• date coverage is often unclear
• it can be difficult to determine what information is legitimate/authoritative/unbiased
• search engines only index a fraction of the available data
• some information may be fee-based and therefore inaccessible