Stefan is conducting research on gene therapy. His primary source of information was the government website for the Human Genome Project, which was a thirteen-year project conducted by the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. Scientists from several different countries participated in the project. The information gathered is

The Human Genome Project was conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, so its government website is an authoritative source for information about the project. A website is not automatically unreliable, and international participation does not make the research unreliable. The best choice is “reliable because it came from a government website.”

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