Healthline Reviews 191

You need to accept all cookies in order to browse this website. Terrible for the end user.

Bullshite merchants whose only goal is to steal data.

If I could give 0 stars I would. It actively lies just to get people to click on it and exploits the website name it has and popularity in google search results.
If you search 'can men get pregnant' it is the only result to say in it's description: 'yes', or specifically: "yes, and it happens more than you think!" But then when you visit the actual site it says in slightly longer words: "Yes! Well yes if you have a uterus. So for men it's actually a no but could be a yes in the future!" Which is not just a total lie but clickbait and requires you to accept cookies before it will show you the site so a data farmer too; I truly hope to outlive this site and it's developers as then I know the world will have improved at least a little!

Says that masturbation can boost self esteem what a waste

I have occasionally consulted this website but today, after seeing a gross error, I looked further and see that this site is for profit. There are no "experts" on health topics that I can see. I was researching GSE, or GRAPEFRUIT SEED extract, with which I am familiar. They describe GSE as GRAPE SEED extract. Below this "article," they have an article titled "Are Grapes Good for You?" I would not recommend this site for any guidance or information.

Couldn't acess the site after objecting their cookie police

Some of the “advice” seems condescending or so vague and lame it’s worthless. Also, many times articles simply state the obvious which, again, is worthless. Finally, some “advice”, especially regarding depression, is just plain detrimental. (Sort of like saying “Snap out of it, it’s not so bad.”) I sincerely wonder about the expertise, research and credibility of many authors and articles.

Absolutely disgraceful useless incompetent want more money you should all read the Hippocratic oath

Healthline is, in reality, "Healthline Media", a group of aggregators and journalists and web marketers that copy and paste to create 'stuff/content/blather' to be promoted as factual. It is medical garbage. Its articles claim to be expert-reviewed, but are wholly and totally unreferenced (?what kind of review is that?). Try to scroll through a page, and with so many commercial links the page is forever re-loading and bouncing all over the place and impossible to read. This page: healthline (dot com) /health-news/why-some-people-are-claiming-life-on-ozempic-is-miserable
is a factual, physiological disaster. And (surprise) there is no way to comment on its shortcomings.
Avoid.

Everything that’s wrong with the world. Gives you a menu of cookies to choose from but unless you choose them all (including giving everything to their ‘partners’) then you don’t get to read anything but a feeble excuse page that says they’re “working on” a cookie free site. Yeah, sure you are(!) No thanks!
Google need to ditch this from their search results because they’re everywhere masquerading as various different sites and getting in the way.

Why can't I give it zero stars? Their "privacy" policy is draconian. I have to agree to have my name and searches prostituted to all of their greedy associates. Sorry, I'm going elsewhere. I just wish i could set my browser to exclude results from their sites. And, sorry folks, they aren't woke. Were they woke, they wouldn't have these worst-in-class policies.

Uses offensive, misogynistic, inaccurate and non-inclusive language by calling women 'vulva owners' .

Their articles are written in woke-speak and are extremely slanted. I never realized how one-sided and not medical based their “information” actually was until today.

They go against everything natural and try to scare people away… created by big pharma too keep you sick.

I new it wasn’t worth reading as soon as I seen cismales

Wouldn’t give this site any stars if I could. Goes against all privacy and UK GDPR policies, by forcing users to accept all cookies. Should be banned and blocked by all search engines. If you decline cookies you get no information on what you searched for and arrived at the site to read. Ergo, this website provides no help to people with health issues… unless you let the site track you, and use your data to provide advertisements!

Healthline is obviously supported by big pharma. The information they display is clearly biased. Please do not make the mistake of following their health information.

Their report (and "review" ) states that all pathogens cause disease and thus none are good. But other websites say otherwise: that some pathogens are actually beneficial and necessary.

As a board certified and licensed Psychologist , I am very disappointed with articles about mental health and mental illnesses from this website. The reason why I am disappointed is because they are spreading mis/disinformation about mental health and mental illnesses. Despite claiming that their articles are MEDICALLY REVIEWED by Medical professionals DOES NOT PROVE that their articles are factual/trustable-reliable or contain reliable factual health information. Healthline and Psych Central websites are both not reliable for mental health information PLEASE DO NOT GET FOOLED/MISLEAD by these articles at all. Please meet with your medical provider and a reliable medical professional (who is board certified and has reliable educational degrees/certifications) for any health related concerns/questions not these so called health websites that are not experts in medicine (but instead claim themselves to be and include having articles reviewed by medical professionals, which really is used to convince you that what the article is telling you is 100% true and scientifically supported when in reality it is actually supported by biases/false information by so called medical expert writers who put convincing degree credentials after their name). I will file a lawsuit and sue this website for spreading misinformation about mental health and causing psychological damage. Spreading Mis/disinformation about mental health leads to people having anxiety disorders and depression. Please check the information that you are spreading by an actual real reliable medical expert.

It is like most niche content mills: worse than useless.

It is just more damaging when such articles are about medical issues.

This site and others like it are dangerous because the articles do undergo proofreading, lending them a patina of professionalism.

Similarly, each factual statement must be attributed and this is mainly done using quotes from "experts" or excerpts from previously published works.

The trouble is, there is no objective health or medical criteria for what constitutes an expert and they do not disqualify experts who have a vested interest in addressing the subject a particular way.

Just because you can eke out a living selling a particular health or beauty service doesn't establish that your service has benefits that have been clinically proven -- and more importantly, it doesn't prove the reverse: that services which compete with your own are useless ot even hazardous.

I only know this site can't be trusted because I actually do have expertise, training and/or education in many of the subjects they cover and in those areas, their articles are nearly always inaccurate.

Unfortunately, I have no solution. Fact-finding on the internet gets worse with each passing day. It could only be fixed if publishers paid much higher prices for quality content from credentialed authorities, then hired equally authoritative editors to vet that content before it goes live. This will never happen.

The only solution for the end user is to read extremely widely and when you see a quote or attribution, find the source material to see for yourself whether it has been represented correctly. Do it again and again, till you are satisfied that a preponderance of evidence supports the advice these self styled experts glibly dispense.