At 12:38 PM 2/4/03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not necessarily. It is a well documented phenomenon that people show up at hospitals with even some seemingly real conditions whenever there is a particular panic in the media, even in cases where it is simply not possible that they were made sick by the incident.Well, in a large population, there's also a certain fraction of people who are sick for other reasons--food poisoning, say, or coming down with the flu. If you tell all those people "you've just been exposed to dangerous chemicals that may make you ill," it's not a surprise if some of those people assume they're sick because of the dangerous space chemicals, rather than because of that potato salad they had at the picnic last Sunday.
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Jay
--John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
