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Every panic

The archive

44 panics – what was said, what happened and how big the gap was. Filter, compare and set your own meters.

Blown over 1948–1956 · USA and Sweden · Film, TV and booksComic booksComics are ruining our children!Overblown +4 Creepy figure is hiding in children’s videos!Blown over 2018–2019 · Britain and worldwide · Technology and the internetMomoOverblown +4 Deadly online game lures children to suicide!Blown over 2016–2017 · Russia and worldwide · Technology and the internetThe Blue Whale challengeOverblown +4 Childhood vaccine may cause autism!Blown over 1998–2010 · Britain and worldwide · Health and environmentThe MMR vaccine and autismOverblown +4 Secret satanic cults are abusing children in ritual sacrifices!Blown over 1980–1995 · USA and worldwide · Morals and safetyThe Satanic PanicOverblown +4 Horror videos are destroying Britain’s children!Blown over 1982–1984 · Britain · Film, TV and booksVideo nastiesOverblown +4 Blown over 1980–1982 · Sweden · Film, TV and booksVideo violenceVideo violence is poisoning our children!Overblown +4 Blown over 1993–2010 · USA and worldwide · Games and playViolent video gamesViolent games are turning children into killers!Overblown +4 5G masts are spreading the coronavirus!Blown over 2019–2020 · Britain and worldwide · Technology and the internet5GOverblown +3 Blown over 1905–1915 · France and Switzerland · Stimulants and intoxicantsAbsintheThe green fairy drives people to madness and murder!Overblown +3 Blown over 1756–1823 · Sweden · Stimulants and intoxicantsCoffeeCoffee is ruining the nation’s health – and its economy!Overblown +3 Hidden satanic messages in heavy metal!Blown over 1985–1990 · USA · Music and danceHeavy metal and the PMRCOverblown +3 Blown over 1995–2015 · Worldwide · Technology and the internetMobile phone radiationYour mobile phone gives you brain tumours!Overblown +3 Blown overGolden Front Page 1942 1942–1976 · USA · Games and playPinballPinball machines are turning children into gamblers!Overblown +3 Strangers are poisoning children’s Halloween candy!Blown over 1970–1990 · USA · Morals and safetyPoisoned Halloween candyOverblown +3 Blown over 1976–1978 · Britain and Sweden · Music and dancePunkThe filth and the fury! Punks shock the nation!Overblown +3 Blown over 1770–1800 · Germany and Europe · Film, TV and booksReading maniaNovels are making our daughters ill!Overblown +3 Partly justified 1930–1940 · USA · Stimulants and intoxicantsReefer madnessMarijuana turns young people into murderers!Overblown +3 Blown over 1955–1959 · USA, Britain and Sweden · Music and danceRock'n'rollRock'n'roll awakens youth’s lowest instincts!Overblown +3 Blown over 1979–1990 · USA and Sweden · Games and playRole-playing gamesRole-playing games lure the young into the occult and suicide!Overblown +3 Blown over 1905–1911 · Sweden · Film, TV and booksThe cinemaCinemas are corrupting the young!Overblown +3 Blown over 2016 · USA, Sweden and worldwide · Morals and safetyThe clown scareCreepy clowns are chasing people in the streets!Overblown +3 The computer virus that will wipe five million PCs!Blown over 1992 · Worldwide · Technology and the internetThe Michelangelo virusOverblown +3 The children’s book that teaches witchcraft!Blown over 1999–2008 · USA and worldwide · Film, TV and booksHarry Potter and witchcraftOverblown +2 Partly justified 1975–1995 · USA · Health and environmentKiller beesKiller bees heading north!Overblown +2 Blown over 1964–1966 · Britain · Youth cultureMods and rockersYouth gangs invade the seaside!Overblown +2 Making a call can blow up the petrol station!Blown over 1999–2010 · Worldwide · Technology and the internetPhones at petrol stationsOverblown +2 Drug parties are destroying a whole generation!Partly justified 1988–1995 · Britain · Music and danceRave and ecstasyOverblown +2 Dance halls lure the young into drink and loose living!Blown over 1932–1945 · Sweden · Music and danceThe dance-hall menaceOverblown +2 Blown over 1970–1990 · Worldwide · Health and environmentThe microwave ovenRadiation in the kitchen is ruining our food – and us!Overblown +2 Partly justified 1997–2000 · Worldwide · Technology and the internetThe millennium bugComputers will crash at the millennium!Overblown +2 Cartoon sends hundreds of children to hospital!Partly justified 1997 · Japan · Film, TV and booksThe Pokémon shockOverblown +2 Blown over 1957–1965 · Sweden · Youth cultureThe raggareRaggare gangs are terrorising small towns!Overblown +2 Children’s show is promoting homosexuality!Blown over 1999 · USA · Film, TV and booksThe TeletubbiesOverblown +2 Partly justified 2017–2018 · USA · Youth cultureThe Tide Pod challengeTeenagers are eating detergent for likes!Overblown +2 Blown over 1800–1830 · Britain and Europe · Music and danceThe waltzIndecent foreign dance spreads through the ballrooms!Overblown +2 Blown over 1890–1900 · Europe and the USA · Morals and safetyWomen on bicyclesDoctors warn: cycling gives women “bicycle face”!Overblown +2 It was true 1974–1987 · Worldwide · Health and environmentThe ozone holeSpray cans are destroying the ozone layer!Spot on It was true 1900–1982 · Worldwide and Sweden · Health and environmentAsbestosThe miracle material that causes lung diseaseUnderestimated −3 It was true 1950–1964 · Worldwide · Stimulants and intoxicantsTobaccoDoctors: smoking may cause lung cancerUnderestimated −3 It was true 1925–2021 · Worldwide · Health and environmentLeaded petrolScientists warn: lead in petrol is poisoning usUnderestimated −4 AI is taking our jobs – and maybe the world!Ongoing 2022– · Worldwide · Technology and the internetArtificial intelligence Phones are ruining school!Ongoing 2018– · Sweden and worldwide · Technology and the internetPhones in school Ongoing 2012– · Worldwide · Technology and the internetSocial media and young people’s mental healthThe smartphone has created an anxious generation!