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Why searching symptoms can convince you you're seriously ill

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WebMD doesn't inherently hate you; your own aggressively awful confirmation bias does. This psychological trap ensures that human beings will completely ignore perfectly logical explanations while violently cherry-picking highly alarming data that totally supports their pre-existing, hypochondriac-fueled anxieties.

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