Discussion Board 3 CT

There is a lot of information online about the HPV vaccine. Some of it is true. Some of it is false. Of the true information, some of it is more reliable than others.

Use the guiding questions for assessing appeals to expertise that we learned in chapter 6 [see the red box on page 143] to evaluate both of the following websites. For both websites, please evaluate the reliability of the information specifically on the HPV vaccine itself. For example, does each website pass or fail the guiding questions based on its information about the vaccine itself (not about the lawsuit concerning the vaccine)?

For both sites, state whether the website passes or fails each of the 7 guiding questions, and explain why the site passes or fails that guiding question.

Finally for both sites, use that information to draw a conclusion as to the degree of trust one should have in the information presented there.

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