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Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The History of Mass Hysteria
Hysteria is an ancient Greek word from Hystera meaning uterus. It was thought to affect people with a uterus and over the years it's often been used to describe any kind of behavior by women that men find annoying. As for mass hysteria, that seems to have first become common in the Middle Ages,. especially with outbreaks of the dancing plague. People believed that they were seeing God, or being possessed by demons.
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