The Quackwatch Link Patrol
Volunteers Needed
We would like to ensure that our links to other sites remain valid. We would also like to help our visitors find additional science-based information related to the topics we cover. Please contact us if you would like to spend an hour or more on any of the following:
Links from our links pages.
Two people are needed to check once a month to be sure that the sites
to which we link have not changed their URL. Our three main links pages
are:
Links from within articles
Many of our articles contain links to other sites that provide supplementary
information. We need several people to compile a list of these links. Once
this is done, we will need several people to check them periodically.
Links to journal abstracts
The National Library of Medicine's PubMed
site provides free MEDLINE searches with a special feature that provides
abstracts of journal articles plus links to related articles. As of May
15, 1998, all new articles posted to Quackwatch will contain direct links
to their journal citations. We need several people to help us compile the
PubMed ID numbers (PMIDs) of previously posted citations, which can be obtained
in three steps: