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Always carefully consider the source of the information you want to use. Be aware that businesses—both legitimate and not—will often populate web pages with content designed to channel readers toward a transaction of some kind. The kind of page content that’ll inspire the most transactions is not necessarily the same as content that will provide honest and accurate information. That’s not to say that private business websites are always inaccurate—or that nonprofit organizations always produce reliable content—but that you should take the source into account.

With that in mind, I suggest that you’re more likely to get accurate and helpful health information, for example, from the website of a well-known government agency like the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care or an academic health provider like the Mayo Clinic (https://www.mayoclinic.org/) than from a site called CheapCureZone.com (a fictitious name but representative of hundreds of real sites).

Similarly, you should consider the context of information you’re consuming. Did it come in an email message from someone you know? Were you expecting the email? Did you get to a particular web page based on a link in a different site? Do you trust that site?

By the way, I personally consider Wikipedia to be a mostly accurate and reliable information site that generally includes useful links to source material. Biased or flat-out wrong information will sometimes turn up on pages, but it’s rare, and, more often than not, problematic pages will contain warnings indicating that the content in its current state is being contested. And if you do find errors? Fix ’em yourself.