Alarmism
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Alarmism is excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat e.g. the increases in deaths from infectious disease.[1]
[edit] See also
- 2009 flu pandemic
- European sovereign debt crisis
- 2012 phenomenon
- Climate change alarmism
- Culture of fear (fear and anxiety in public discourse)
- Hypochondriasis (excessive fear of illness and physical harm)
- Mass hysteria (public fear in large populations)
- Moral panic (threat to societal values)
- Scaremongering (use of fear to influence the opinions)
- Sociology of disaster (a special branch of sociology)
- State of Fear (a novel by Michael Crichton)
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf (the fable of Aesop)
- The Sky Is Falling (the fable of Chicken Little)
[edit] References
- ^ David Murray, Joel Schwartz (May 25, 2008), "Alarmism is an infectious disease", Society 34 (4): 35, doi:10.1007/BF02912206, http://www.springerlink.com/content/xu472710j0670176/
[edit] External links
- Panic Watch - Lists and blogs concerning media panic, health scares, paranoia, and conspiracy theories
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