A name you can not trust.

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Health on the Net Foundation www.hon.ch
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“A name you can not trust.”

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written by on 19/10/2012

Health on the net foundation: a name you can not trust. 
I need to award this 2-star, because, the badge means nothing and until you take the effort to waste your time with it you are given the false and possibly harmful impression it means something. 
This organisation has put it's name to sites which have worsened peoples health. 
No problem you might think. people get worse all the time. But it's the reason WHY it makes them worse. Because the people in a building in another country, apparently have no way of knowing what a site owners real intentions or issues are, and no way of removing the logo from a site that has issues. Or even a site that starts off about "aspirin", and changes to become about cars or flower arranging. 
On an information site or forum, HotN can look at whats on a site. but they cant look at what Isnt on there. if someone running a health site is deliberately with holding information. for company competition purposes, or just to spread their issues and ramp up their traffic. And there are some admin out there whos only reason to be on a site, is pass forward their issues to you, and try to bring you down to their level. 
HotN have a 'report button' for dodgy sites. The entire extent of their error checking, is to go to the site owner. That's like going to a company owner and saying "is your company ####?". The owner isn't exactly going to say "yes....". They want to keep the 'logo'. 
The badge. has put its name to bad information. Please be aware, that if you see a site with this "logo" on it, that guarantee's you nothing.

Also.The reason not many people complain about these types of health site, is because of the reason people are searching in the first place. They can be alone, scared, have major health issues and little hope of recovery, or all of the above. Finding answers is not what you want to do.
Some sites have been going for many years. They have regular users who may have deeper issues. but use the forum as a negative outlet in lieu of therapy. They protect their negative bubble. 
EG. You join a forum and post. there are two responses1 response gives you wrong information1 response is aggressive to you. 
You dont know the wrong information is wrong. and you dont know why they are aggressiveLikely course of action ? you think you've said something wrong, and leave. You are now in the same state as when you found the site, but feeling worse. Little do you know, others agree with you, just not the...authority on the forum.

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