Havana Syndrome and Mass Hysteria-Havana Syndrome and Mass Hysteria, Hr 1
The Conspiracy Show · Chris Witting
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (talkzone.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
About this episode
Richard welcomes a sociologist specializing in mass hysteria and social panics, rumors, gossip, fads, crazes, manias, moral panics, stampedes, urban legends, community threat panics, riots, 'cults,' social movements, and folie a deux. Guest: Dr. Robert Bartholomew is a sociologist who studies topics on the margins of science, such as UFOs, Bigfoot and lake monsters. He has also published widely on mass hysteria and social panics including a recent groundbreaking study in The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine on how social media is spreading mass psychogenic illness. He teaches history at Botany College in Auckland, New Zealand.