The Stanford University School of Medicine released a report today with shocking revelations about lies, fabrications, and downright stupidity on the internet.
Why is this different from everything else that's wrong with the internet? Because Stanford is blaming WebMD and other trusted medical websites for the backlash against Plan B, not to mention multiple other "mistakes" in the advice these sites cough up about sex...
Here are the most disturbing examples we picked up, quoted directly from a source at HealthNewsDigest, which covered the report:
sites often failed to say that minors can buy emergency
contraception from authorized pharmacists in nine states
many
sites did not correct the myth that emergency contraception causes an
abortion
Sixty percent of the Web sites said the birth control
pill causes weight gain, despite recent research showing modern oral
contraceptives do not affect body weight
Only 19 percent of the
Web sites made it clear that intrauterine devices are safe for
adolescents to use.
only about half of the Web sites surveyed correctly
stated that some STDs, such as herpes, can be transmitted through
skin-to-skin contact or kissing
Forty percent of Web sites surveyed did not provide
accurate information about when young women should receive their first
Pap exam. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology updated its
Pap exam recommendations in 2003 to state that women should receive
their first exam three years after initiating sexual activity or at age
21; that is about three years later than the previous recommendations [“Extra Pap exams are an unnecessary stress and expense,
and a barrier to getting birth control,” Yen said, since young women
may forgo contacting a doctor for a contraceptive prescription if they
mistakenly believe they must first get the exam.]
Researchers indicted that sites like Go Ask Alice, a product of Columbia University, are much more reliable. For example, here's their advice on giving a decent handjob, something we'll bet WebMD doesn't have the balls to pull. So, kids, if for some reason you're reading this after doing a Google search for "sex advice," go there first... and definitely don't read my posts. Sarcasm can be lost on those not "in the know..."
Via this link.
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