Which Medical Websites Do You Trust for Conventional and Alternative Information?

Search engine company Optimum 7 writes that Bing will rival Google in getting health results because Bing is narrowing their health information search results to 9 sites:

 “When it comes down to it, there is no substitute for 8 years of medical school and professional medical experience in the field. That’s apparently what Bing thinks as well, because they are limiting their results to the expert content generated by:

• The Mayo Clinic
• Medicine.net
• Medstory
• The National Institute of Health’s site
• Medline Plus
• About.com
• Wikipedia and others 

“This move will possibly allow Bing to make serious gains against Google as the population ages and higher quality medical information is needed by users.” 

Kudos to Forbes for offering their best of alternative medicine sites. They "sifted through the muck and found reliable, informative sites"...

Excuse me but Dr. Mercola should top the list.

The issue I suspect is Dr. Mercola and other alternative medicine vocalists / activists have no problem bucking the traditional paradigm of conventional medicine for the good of their readers. Point out the layered politics behind the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and you'll never make top lists in mainstream dialogue. 

Mercola presents critical bias in favor of alternative medicine and he makes no apologies.

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