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Research Paper First Draft Gregory Fiona

Medical research and the way to access this research has improved throughout the past few years, decades and centuries. Medical research is the broad area of science that involves the investigation of the biological process and the causes of disease through careful experimentation, observation, laboratory work, analysis, and testing. Crowd sourcing the various types of research has developed into an empire which comprises of vast knowledge and advice.

The credibility of crowdsourcing for medical research is reliable, because of the increasing amount of valid sources, and the rise of technology in medical advances that have allowed for credible sources to be accessed.  The success of an information gathering task relies on the ability to identify trustworthy information reports, while false reports are bound to appear either due to honest mistakes or sabotage attempts. This information verification problem is a difficult task, which, just like the information-gathering task, requires the involvement of a large number of people.(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121010171946.htm)

Crowdsourcing of medical research has grown throughout the course of time. The reason why it is so much better now than what is was before is because there are a lot more people on the internet. People can tell now a days what sites are reliable and what sites really arent. When you see .edu, for example, you can tell that that is more reliable than a source that says .com. Also if you see that it is like a national orginization for medical research or something, then that is really a tip off that it is trustworthy. Not every site is going to be a good site and what you can use, but as time passes, you can tell what sites are reliable.

Some people might think like “well what if I don’t know what sites are reliable and not?” that is where some of the problem lies. Medical research only goes so far. If you have a serious problem that needs to be seen very quickly, then looking it up online, and not going to the doctor’s would not be a smart move. Medical research is really for people who just need to check references and get a broad idea of what is going on. There are billions of people on the internet, and it is very likely that somebody has had the same symptoms that you have, and therefore, you have to find somewhere that you can relate to. It is mostly about discretions and making a decision on what is reliable and not.

There are many sites out there for medical research and it is growing by the day. SOme of them are definitely more reliable than others, but that shouldn’t halt the entire process and the whole industry basically. You just have to be smart.

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