01-21-2015, 02:16 AM
ironyak - "Agreed, and I hesitated to even post this link. However, the state Dept of Health was quick to dismiss outright any possibility of health effects from the Aug 7th release. Without the official agency exercising their responsibility and gathering data, can you think of other sources of more reliable information?"
i understand that in the effort to proceed we sometimes go with what we feel is the most reliable option of a limited choice of less than perfect sources of information available. though if the range of sources is unfortunately limited to a single option of especially suspect integrity i would most likely refrain from citing it at all and just resign myself to the fact that clearly insufficient or no reliable data is available. at the very least i would want to have a most clear disclaimer in such cases. i think activist organizations of the more zealous type by nature tend to have an especially hard time resisting the temptation to manipulate information towards their agenda. they are most often insufficient sources for fact-finding and objective analysis.
not criticizing your overall effort to collect and sort through information here. quite the contrary, i think it's a good thing.
i understand that in the effort to proceed we sometimes go with what we feel is the most reliable option of a limited choice of less than perfect sources of information available. though if the range of sources is unfortunately limited to a single option of especially suspect integrity i would most likely refrain from citing it at all and just resign myself to the fact that clearly insufficient or no reliable data is available. at the very least i would want to have a most clear disclaimer in such cases. i think activist organizations of the more zealous type by nature tend to have an especially hard time resisting the temptation to manipulate information towards their agenda. they are most often insufficient sources for fact-finding and objective analysis.
not criticizing your overall effort to collect and sort through information here. quite the contrary, i think it's a good thing.