Please do not lump About.com in with other entities on the internet. I am the Busy Cooks Guide for About.com. As to my qualifications: I have a degree in Food Science and Nutrition. I have written 25 cookbooks and am writing my 26th, 27th, and 28th even as I post here. I worked for the Pillsbury Company as a Home Economist and I have decades of writing experience. The About.com Guides are definitely "real, useful information written by people who actually know how to do something." Each Guide is an expert in his or her field and each is carefully vetted before About.com lets them write. Very, very few people who apply are hired. The Guides who write about medical information have their articles vetted by M.D.s before they are posted. Please do your research before you make unjustifiable accusations.