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Comments on Meteorite Brings Illness To Peruvian Village
A strange incident in Peru this past weekend has readers thinking about The Andromeda Strain. (Read
the complete story)
| "Slashdotters are quick to announce all sorts of exotic explanations when the most likely and plausible explanation is "mass psychogenic illness".
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/180/4/300
" (Yossi Preminger 9/21/2007 7:57:34 AM) |
| "H.P.Lovecraft - The colour out of space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space" (MakodFilu 9/24/2007 4:07:51 AM) |
| "well, I was going to mention The Color Out of Space, but they've already done so......ia" ( 9/25/2007 12:34:48 PM) |
"The Color Out of Space was also made into a movie with the great Boris Karloff.
 (Nothing unusual about this old man...) (Bill Christensen 9/26/2007 9:07:43 AM) |
| "Yossi - there probably was some element of mass hysteria. However, the meteorite scattered debris many hundreds of feet (and onto houses hundreds of feet away). So it's possible that a great many people were exposed to arsenic-laden water vapor, which was later identified as the cause of the 'sickness.' See Peruvian Meteor Sickness Diagnosed." (Bill Christensen 9/26/2007 2:07:50 PM) |
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