Sort fact from opinion in managing health

摘要

Information reaching your clients may contain unverified test results masquerading as proven facts, veterinarians are told. Beware the information revolution! There has been a warning this year that the instant access to news of technical developments provided by the internet and other media could be misleading producers, by bombarding them with a barrage of data which are unfiltered and unedited if not actually useless. It is non-information, declared the keynote speaker at a meeting of swine veterinarians held in the USA. Veterinary practitioners or consultants must avoid contributing to it and moreover should be helping the industry to separate scientific fact from a mass of unsubstantiated statements.