Fun story: I was on a long-haul 7-hour flight from UAE to Thailand, and we were circling the runway when the wing of the plane in front of us in the line to land hit the ground and burst into flames when the plane came down at an angle (there were poor weather conditions, but you could see the fire from our plane) and we had to make an emergency diversion to a different Thai airport.

Sooo no setting myself on fire, no dancing, no drinking and no spreading of psychic viruses?

If anyone here wants to know more about the dancing plague in particular please please watch the puppet history episode on it its really entertaining

placebo and nocebo are indeed both from Latin, but they're the future tense forms - "I will please"/"I will harm" rather than the present tense (which would be placeo/noceo instead)

My mom told me she had a friend who truly thought she was pregnant, and started showing symptoms of pregnancy, including her stomach bloating causing her to "see a baby bump", went to the hospital to have a test, and it came back negative.

Did a little digging. Hysterectomies have been around from about 50 to 120 C.E.

When I was a kid, I had such a bad motion sickness, I would start sneezing and feeling sick the moment I opened door to any car, or smell any wunderbaum in like a store. Nocebo shucks

Thank you very much for this fantastic episode! I recently became a patron (@notcorrey good guess but my name is pronounced differently, I'm Italian, it's a bit difficult.. ). We also have some episodes of "mass hysteria" in Italy and that's where the word tarantula in this regard comes from: people in some regions of the South of Italy started to dance uncontrollably and it was believed they had been bitten by spiders (tarantulas) whose poison caused them to move as if they had spasms. Hence the dance tarantella in Naples and pizzica (from the Italian pizzicare=sting) in Apulia. The tarantallegra spell in Harry Potter comes from that, taranta=tarantula/spider and allegra=joyful like people who are dancing... What an association of ideas! Keep going with the podcast, you are great! 🤩

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What an amazing episode!! I was so excited to watch along, because it was my suggestion that won on my first month of being a patron, and now it is an entire episode! Keep up the great work guys, it is lovely to have something to listen to while I relax at the same time as learning something wildly interesting. Can't wait for the next episode, and I can definitely see myself being a patron for a long time :)

Sound's like someone cast Otto's Irresistible Dance on those 400 people

Mass Hysteria reminds me of the power of a placebo

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I prepared dried chickpeas to eat like popcorn and turned on the TV to see u, everything was awesome untill my parents come home and Couse they don't speak English (we are from Argentina) appears that they don't realise that I can't hear and understand if they talk out loud. At the moment I started to use my phone to see the video my head starts hurting, psicosomatics it's that u? Now I'm eating my chickpea and seeing u in my phone while i do crochet, still great couse the show it's great, thanks!

I'm excited to watch another eposide

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so that's why I don't have any side effects from my ADHD medication but have one of the side effects of my testosterone blockers. I was too young to understand that there were possible side effects of the ADHD medication but when I started the testosterone blockers and multiple people told me I might experience orthostatic hypotension.

I absolutely loved this episode, it is an amazing topic and it was very interesting! This podcast deserves more attention

I love thiss episode so much

Would be very interested to know what the Sci Guys think if the P.A.C.E study