Radgirl
Fear is probably one of the most intense driving forces known to mankind. I am sure your GP surgeries are full of patients with little wrong with them who come to you to have those fears removed? They convince themselves they have cancer and get into such a state that they are almost writing out their wills when there is nothing much wrong with them
It was the same with Tamiflu I can remember seeing one web site offering a small pack of pills for £100 so panicked were the population. Even the government stockpiled 2 billion of the stuff on the then medical advice
I think you must agree maybe with the expansion of social media and the internet that there is now a serious problem of trust which has developed and is not being correctly addressed?
Pace