For this site, I chose two science based sites; one of which I already use in my chemistry & physical science classes and one I intend to start using in my biology class.
http://bandhmo.org/
This site talks about the dangers of DHMO - dihydrogen monoxide. I've used the paper version of this and have not accessed the web version before. After evaluating the site, I noticed several things about it:
1. There are many advertisements scattered throughout the site, telling me that this is not a scholarly site.
2. The information is accurate, but skewed to make you think the substance is not an everyday product.
3. Many of the links are dead and the links that are active take you to a general site and when you type DHMO into the search box, you get no results.
4. Credibility takes a hit due to no info about the author and the last update date is not shown
http://www.rythospital.com/2008/
This site appears a little more authentic and hides the hoax better, but being a biology guy, I immediately noticed things that are not possible. For example, the Rivitalex pill popped out immediately as well as the male pregnancy video link to the right. After further investigation I noticed that a number of the links are dead links and bring you back to the home site. The links that did work often sent you to pages that had info that was very blatantly false and had only a scattering of links that provided any information. However, if you didn't have a background in science, this site would appear real. The contact us option even worked and had a verification code as part of it. Out of curiosity, I filled this out and received a message stating that the volume of emails is large so immediate response should not be expected :)



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