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1006 - Massive Widespread Panic Attack
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Did the Pokémon cartoon trigger widespread epileptic seizures? Did coca-cola poison dozens of children in Belgium? Why did over a dozen teenagers spontaneously experience tourettes-like symptoms in New York? Join us as we explore incidents of “mass sociogenic illness” on another special episode of Rumor Flies!
*We are not doctors/licensed medical professionals
We have just launched the “Educated Mess Network.” Head on over to educatedmessnetwork.com for more awesome shows like The Side Characters and our new true crime show, Everything but Murder!
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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/1999/jul/06/healthandwellbeing.health
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/155/2/140/108003
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278691502001357
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12176091/
https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1997/december
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon:_Indigo_League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon
https://www.vice.com/en/article/59mnax/did-pokemon-actually-give-kids-seizures-in-the-90s
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_episodes_removed_from_rotation
https://web.archive.org/web/20051107010228/http://angkor.com/cityrain/pokemon.shtml
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of-teen-tics-in-le-roy-n-y
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
https://theweek.com/articles/477146/conversion-disorder-epidemic-spread-by-sight
139 episodios
Manage episode 305424338 series 131753
Did the Pokémon cartoon trigger widespread epileptic seizures? Did coca-cola poison dozens of children in Belgium? Why did over a dozen teenagers spontaneously experience tourettes-like symptoms in New York? Join us as we explore incidents of “mass sociogenic illness” on another special episode of Rumor Flies!
*We are not doctors/licensed medical professionals
We have just launched the “Educated Mess Network.” Head on over to educatedmessnetwork.com for more awesome shows like The Side Characters and our new true crime show, Everything but Murder!
Join our discord for endless shenanigans and discussions!
Want to support the show? Head on over to Patreon!
You can check us out on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and beyond!
RSS Feed: http://www.rumorfliespodcast.com/episodes/?format=rss
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/1999/jul/06/healthandwellbeing.health
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/155/2/140/108003
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278691502001357
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12176091/
https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1997/december
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon:_Indigo_League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon
https://www.vice.com/en/article/59mnax/did-pokemon-actually-give-kids-seizures-in-the-90s
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_episodes_removed_from_rotation
https://web.archive.org/web/20051107010228/http://angkor.com/cityrain/pokemon.shtml
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of-teen-tics-in-le-roy-n-y
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
https://theweek.com/articles/477146/conversion-disorder-epidemic-spread-by-sight
139 episodios
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