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| https://www.reference.com/technology/mobile-phones-good-bad-1b1c6fa5bfaf9707 |
On my previous blog I wrote a summary of an article I read about how cell phone use could potentially lead to brain cancer. The article had credible sources and included actual studies used to analyze the cell phone's influence on the brain. The article I have in this blog however, may not be of the same topic concerning cell phones, but talks about the influence of phones nonetheless. However, the difference between the earlier article and this article is the use of credible sources to back up their claims.
Sure, you can see this Reference article includes "Studies show", "Scientists believe", and also "The Federal Communications Commission", but it is only for two points the writer makes. And "studies show" is not a reliable or credible source to back up anxiety and depression from phones. There are about ten unsupportive claims in this article. These claims may be common knowledge, or we have read, heard, and seen many sources regarding cell phones and we "just know it", however, when trying to answer a question, especially in written form (and online) evidence is needed for support.
With everything on the Internet right now, people are able to say whatever they want to, whether it is false or not. Nowadays, at least for me, I hear a lot of people saying "You can't trust what's on the Internet" or a sarcastic "Oh, since it's on the web it HAS to be true". People can post any claim they want, do not use sources, yet claim everything they say is true, this goes for much of the Internet population that likes to post unsupportive claims. Without sources of statistics, studies, credible authors and thinkers, how are the rest of us to know what they say is actually true? If everyone just starts to believe it and then start saying it all the time? No. We need evidence and proof. Give me facts with evidence to prove the point, not facts "you think you know because you heard it from somewhere else".
