In the assignment to evaluate the website http://www.dhmo.org/, students must critique the authenticity of the site. When performing such a task, one must proceed with caution as there are many fake or biased sites on the World Wide Web. As a higher education student, it is wise to view all sites with a cautious mindset. Today, anyone can create a website and market an idea or product anonymously. There is no law requiring a person to have a license or title to promote a product or idea. This created a colossal problem. The problem now becomes sifting through masses of advertising material and vanity publications to find high-quality information (Smith, 1997). Johns Hopkins University and other higher education institutions have found ways to recognize the validity of a website. . There are five stages of validation and “three can be studied electronically: authorship, publishing organization, and currency (of the document itself)” (Johns Hopkins University, 2013). The first is authorship. In this step, the researcher wants...