6 Baffling Internet Searches for Medical Advice

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There is an adage popularized in academia and which has since seeped into the cultural lexicon that says, "There are no stupid questions." Sadly, this saying lost the majority of its advocates right around the time the Internet took off and everyone realized their tolerance for stupidity was grossly over-pledged.

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When anything is possible, humanity has chosen to lick its elbows.

There are thousands of bewildering questions poured into search engines every day, which is a scary prospect both because the Internet is a breeding ground for misinformation and because the majority of those searches are for
medical advice. What's more, advertisers buy page real-estate around those searches, hoping to cash in on the naiveté and desperation of the sickly instead of offering them the help they're hunting. Ignorance deserves better. It deserves the counsel of someone who has experienced nearly every survivable ailment first hand, it deserves someone who won't judge for petty misunderstanding of human anatomy, it deserves someone who came really close to graduating from that free online medical course he took last spring. My
Uncle Frank has devoted himself to doling out honest answers and candid advice for the people who are in critical need of help but unwilling to put on pants to go get it. The following are completely real questions people have asked the Internet, and the answers they wholly deserve.

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Uncle Frank's Frank Advice: Curing Confusion with Syringes of Certainty Can You Get Pregnant While You Are Pregnant? Ma'am, I don't mean to answer you

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Uncle Frank's Frank Advice: Chemotherapeutic Comfort for the Infection of Ignorance What's the Fastest Way to Get Cancer? I think it's real sad that a

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Uncle Frank's Frank Advice: Scrubbing in for an Operation of Honesty What Could Cause Pain a Stabbing in the Lower Leg? Bodies are pretty fragile thin

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Uncle Frank's Frank Advice: Here to Heal How Many People With Alzheimer's Die? All of them. Yours, Frank

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Uncle Frank's Frank Advice: Prescriptions for Peace of Mind How Do I Spread Salmonella? Seience still doesn't have a way to spread salmonella that's 1

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Uncle Frank's Frank Advice: Prescriptions for Peace of Mind Can Having Sex Underwater Pull Your Uterus Out? To be honest. I'm not 100% on the geograph

Special thanks to David Yehaskel who sifts through raw Internet searches and is responsible for the soul crushing searchoftheday.com.

For more bad advice, check out 6 Life Saving Techniques From the Movies (That Can Kill You). Or cure your Soren fix with 5 Ham-Fisted Religious Websites.

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