hysteria

. . . making people sick. FDA investigating Lucky Charms after customers complained of illness after eating it https://abc7.com/lucky-charms-illness-fda-cereal/11757256/ I'm posting this in this sub-forum because there appears to be no independent confirmation and it's taking place on social...

http://recordsearchlight.com/news/2007/feb/03/incident-may-be-bong-scare/ Last week, we had idiotic authorities in Boston go ape-**** over a cartoon character, not we have idiots in Redding freaking out over a home made bong. When will this insanity end?

Is it me or is the media reporting outbreaks of norovirus with an unnecessary shrillness? Sure, I'd like to avoid infection. However, by the time the news breaks the infection is over, the place disinfected and people are no longer on the trots. What purpose does national news coverage serve...

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/28/canada/hysteria_040528 A leading epidemiologist at the University of British Columbia says a suspected poisoning on a Vancouver bus earlier this week appears to be a case of mass hysteria. (snip) A suspicious passenger and mysterious pellets were suspected...

Can anybody explain what the "mass hysteria" term used by skeptics means and how it is applied? The abstract above was from an article about the theories of ghosts. Whistler.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13857329_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-THE-MOST-TERRIFYING-GUN-IN-THE-WORLD----AND-IT-HAS-JUST-BEEN-SEIZED-ON-OUR-STREETS-name_page.html Is this sort of blatant misinformation and hysteria the norm for UK gun stories? A. the glock 18...