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Patient has spent 40 hours on YouTube and now disagrees with immunologists, economists, and structural engineers. Will correct a plumber.
Incurable. Confidence inversely correlated with sources.
None. A peer-reviewed study is 'mainstream propaganda.'
Patients with Acute 'Doing My Own Research' Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Acute 'Doing My Own Research' Syndrome is an acute behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Scholarus YouTubeus confidentus — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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