Pro-suicide websites 'outnumber' pro-life sites
Friday, 11 Apr 2008
Suicidal people searching the internet are more likely to find advice on how to end life than sites offering help and support, a new study claims.
Researchers from the universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester performed searches likely to be undertaken by a person looking for instructions and information about methods of suicide using the four most popular search engines.
They came across 240 different sites, just under half of which provided some information about methods of suicide. the rest
posted by Pat Dague @ 9:53 AM
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The research is flawed, as I explain at length in this blog post http://paulcanning.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-suicide-prevention-charities-are.html
Anyone with any knowledge of search and search behaviour could point out numerous, extremely basic, problems with the methodology.
What is worse is that charities and government have it within their power to counteract these websites. Blaming people like ISPs is an abdication of responsibility.
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