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Evaluating Web Sites: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

 

Why Evaluate?

More Reasons to Evaluate

Other Reasons to Evaluate

 

 

More Reasons to Evaluate

Your topic is the Holocaust.  You run across a website created
by
the Institute for Historical Review. This site says it is "a
public interest research, educational and publishing center dedicated
to promoting greater public awareness of key chapters of history....."
It also calls itself "non-ideological, non-political, and non-sectarian." 


What it doesn't tell you is that the Institute for
Historical Review
  has been described as
"
a group whose central purpose is Holocaust denial." 
In other words, it claims that in World War II, the Nazis
did not really kill over 6 million Jews, gypsies,
mentally ill, and other people in the concentration
camps, the way history says it happened.  This
website denies the Holocaust happened despite the
overwhelming historical evidence proving it did.  By
 the way, would you be interested in knowing that
the person who runs the Institute is a neo-Nazi?
How does this affect the believability of the website?


                                           Want a college degree the easy way? 
                                                      Just enroll at Belford University.
                                                      http://www.belforduniversity.org/

                                                    They give you college credit for your life  experiences.  No college classes are  necessary. 
All you have to do is have a credit card ready and pay their fees.    

$349or an Associate's Degree
$499 for a Bachelor's Degree
$479 for a Master's Degree
$1549 for a Doctorate

And they have deals!

Associate Degree + Bachelor's Degree + Master's Degree for $849
Bachelor's Degree + Master's Degree + Doctorate Degree for $1,034

Their slogan?  Get a Degree for what you already know!   
And they offer "Accredited Degrees Guaranteed Delivery in 7 days!"

Of course, don't you think it is suspicious that a college will sell you a degree
without you ever having to take any classes as long as you pay the fees? 
What about being able to get a doctorate within a week? 
What do you think about the fact that they don't give you a mailing address to contact
them, and that the two organizations that "accredit" them don't have mailing addresses as well?

That they keep wanting to get a credit card number from you? 
And did you note that the url for their web address ends in .
org instead of .edu, as
regular, legitimate colleges and universities do?

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