Internet health information has not produced better-informed patients

Evidence

The vast amount of information on health topics available to everyone on the Internet has not necessarily resulted in better informed people. Information is still better absorbed when it is conveyed by a trusted person in a direct conversation. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 647

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the finding that information overload can structurally undermine independent thought, from earlier silence/noise reading.