Alarmism

Alarmism is excessive or exaggerated alarm about a real or imagined threat e.g. the increases in deaths from infectious disease.^[1]

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)

References

External links

• Panic Watch - Lists and blogs concerning media panic, health scares, paranoia, and conspiracy theories