>>Why is the private sector responsible for providing accurate health information? As this article shows, the incentives for people running medical websites <in the private sector> and the people reading them are not aligned.>>
I don't know that the cause of this particular misalignment is "private sector". But no doubt the current implementations by the private sector exhibit this misalignment.
>>I'd say the UK NHS website <which is public sector> and symptoms/medications pages hit the nail on the head>>
I assume this implies that the NHS website does not exhibit the previously noted misalignment. Why is that? Obviously this site's sole funding is not from advertising. I assume it's from taxes collected by the government. So what is incentivizing those that build this site and maintain its content to make it so good?
I'm wondering why my question got downvoted. I've had this happen before when asking questions. Could it be a matter of a couple of readers not assuming benign intent? As in, someone thinks I'm not actually asking a question but making a statement and they don't agree with the statement. Either way it's interesting.
Perhaps the more likely to be read as benign version would be this: We all agree site A is bad because it's misaligned (which I think all agree is due to being driven by ads). Then we propose that site B is good - but there's no indication about WHY site B is good. We know why site A is bad, but why is site B good. And more specifically since we're describing the value in terms of alignment, what alignment is there in site B that drives the goodness?
I don't know that the cause of this particular misalignment is "private sector". But no doubt the current implementations by the private sector exhibit this misalignment.
>>I'd say the UK NHS website <which is public sector> and symptoms/medications pages hit the nail on the head>>
I assume this implies that the NHS website does not exhibit the previously noted misalignment. Why is that? Obviously this site's sole funding is not from advertising. I assume it's from taxes collected by the government. So what is incentivizing those that build this site and maintain its content to make it so good?