diff --git a/README b/README
index 34f3e455a..81d545a60 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -96,10 +96,7 @@ Supported input formats include `markdown`, `html`, `latex`, and `rst`.
 Note that the `rst` reader only parses a subset of reStructuredText
 syntax. For example, it doesn't handle tables, option lists, or
 footnotes. But for simple documents it should be adequate. The `latex`
-and `html` readers are also limited in what they can do. Because the
-`html` reader is picky about the HTML it parses, it is recommended that
-you pipe HTML through [HTML Tidy] before sending it to `pandoc`, or use
-the `html2markdown` script described below.
+and `html` readers are also limited in what they can do.
 
 If you don't specify a reader or writer explicitly, `pandoc` will
 try to determine the input and output format from the extensions of
diff --git a/man/man1/pandoc.1.md b/man/man1/pandoc.1.md
index 4c6be3faf..49f645140 100644
--- a/man/man1/pandoc.1.md
+++ b/man/man1/pandoc.1.md
@@ -60,10 +60,6 @@ should pipe input and output through `iconv`:
 
     iconv -t utf-8 input.txt | pandoc | iconv -f utf-8
 
-Pandoc's HTML parser is not very forgiving.  If your input is
-HTML, consider running it through `tidy`(1) before passing it
-to Pandoc.  Or use `html2markdown`(1), a wrapper around `pandoc`.
-
 # OPTIONS
 
 -f *FORMAT*, -r *FORMAT*, \--from=*FORMAT*, \--read=*FORMAT*