hysteria

She compared photographs of women diagnosed with hysteria, a condition later debunked, with those taken by spiritists who were trying to make photographs of dead people appearing behind grieving relatives.

In some cases, they have attributed reported health-effects from fume exposure to factors including hyperventilation, jet lag, psychological stress, mass hysteria and malingering.

"We hear the hysteria about our military pilots allegedly violating rules and somebody's air space," Peskov tells me.

This led to hysteria, with fans attacking the barriers, shouting and pleading that they were disabled and needed to leave.

But at the height of anti-communist hysteria, real estate interests, seeing their profits threatened by public housing, launch a successful campaign against it, financing opposition groups that call it “socialist housing.”