User:Levi2441/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Medicinal uses of fungi

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I'm very interested in learning more about how modern medicine is developed. This topic is important because there are many medicines that rely on fungi. My preliminary impression was that there was a type of medicine for multiple types of diseases that that has ingredients originating from fungi.

Evaluate the article
Overall, the article gives a good overview of the field of medicinal uses of fungi. All the subsections of the article are relevant to the topic, and it is structured well so that it covers research and development in various areas. These areas include cancer, antibacterial agents, cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitors, antifungals,  antivirals,  immunosuppressants, diabetes, psychotropic effects, and yeasts, to name the main areas of study. All the information and sources appear to be up to date. One area of improvement would be to add more details to each category -- the current content goes over historical points in research and development but does not give a significant amount of detail into each point.

The article takes a very neutral standpoint and approaches the topic from a scientific and medicinal point of view.

Clicking on the citations, all of the links work or the citations cite available resources on the internet. This article does a very good job of supplementing every claim with a citation to give credibility to the claim. The sources come from a people from various backgrounds and from different parts of the world, and are generally diverse.

The main talking point of this topic was conducting a merge of two articles that appeared to have alot of overlap in content because they dealed with similar topics: Medicinal mushroom and Medicinal molds. The article talks about this topic in a similar way that we talk about in class in that it focuses on factual presentation and maintaining a professional and neutral tone.