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James Delingpole

In praise of cyberchondria

Sometimes, Dr Google is your friend

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

There’s something perversely satisfying in discovering that your children have inherited your vices. That’s why I was so quietly pleased the other evening when Boy came to see me petrified that the huge fat spider with the sinister body-markings on the wall above his bed was in fact a deadly false widow with a bite — so the internet tells us — whose symptoms can range from ‘feelings of numbness, severe swelling and discomfort to various levels of burning or chest pains’.

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