Media panic, health scares, paranoia, and conspiracy theories http://www.panicwatch.org We're really into the apocalypse stuff lately. I mean, we've stockpiled literal piles of weapons, dug miles of moats and filled them with gasoline, and constructed several armored vehicles for food r... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=How%20Will%20It%20All%20End%3F http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=How%20Will%20It%20All%20End%3F Oh, here's another one. Woman tries to shut down Large Hadron Collider over apocalypse fears. Despite the fact that the collider has been turned on several times with zero black holes created,... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Hadron%20Collider%20Under%20Attack%2C%20Again http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Hadron%20Collider%20Under%20Attack%2C%20Again Last time we highlighted a paranoid conspiracy nut who went on a shooting spree in Washington, a suicide due to fear of the apocalypse, and paranoid delusions ruining peoples' lives. This time arou... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Why%20It%20Matters%20Part%202 http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Why%20It%20Matters%20Part%202 For whatever reason, the past week has seen more than its share of apocalyptic scare stories. It seems that with the convergence of economic woes, winter weather, and two big earthquakes, doomsayers ... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Week%20Of%20The%20Apocalypse http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Week%20Of%20The%20Apocalypse The Mid-Atlantic was deluged with 24-40" of snow over the weekend, including the Panic Watch! Headquarters building near Washington DC. We've been digging ourselves out with industrial hydraulic dril... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Snowmageddon%202010 http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Snowmageddon%202010 In case you missed it, last week The Lancet retracted its 1998 paper about a link between vaccines and autism. This story has served as the bedrock for much of the vaccine quack argument for the past... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=12-year-old%20Vaccine-Autism%20Paper%20Retracted http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=12-year-old%20Vaccine-Autism%20Paper%20Retracted Happy Halloween, folks! It's time to head up to the attic, find yourself a costume, and get scarin'. Here's a few of our officially endorsed choices for 2009. Authentic Bigfoot. Check yo... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Happy%20Halloween http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Happy%20Halloween It's not time to hand out the Panic Watch! True Genius Award just yet, but Freeman is certainly standing atop the pile. Freeman is usually introduced Richard Dolan-style: by announcing his academic... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Freeman http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Freeman BREAKING: The city of Chicago survives to see another day after nearly being NUKED by the government! The website 922warning.com appeared just over a week ago, warning that such an event was like... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Chicago%20Survives%209%2F22 http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Chicago%20Survives%209%2F22 "It says right here there's this new strain of swine flu that could turn into a pandemic? Like I don't know much about science, you know? I don't pretend to be an e-pee-demiologist. Sometimes I do,... http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Profundity http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Profundity