Talk:Tanganyika laughter epidemic

message: This page is unsourced.  Of the three external links, two are dead, and the third leads to a page that doesn't discuss the "Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic" at all. --Carnildo 06:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a copy of the cited journal article in the Stanford University Library system (Jackson Medical Library). It's legitimate. 128.12.186.193 10:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dispute as to verifiability and factual accuracy

message: What do you mean? The last link works and discusses the laughter epidemic.
--User:Wackojacko1138 00:45, 20 February 2006
: Agreed. The americanscientist.org link works, and the first several paragraphs describe the Tanganyika incident.
: The NIH have a 167-70 page document published in 1963 which describes the incident. "An epidemic of laughing in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika." .  
: --Kevin L'Huillier 23:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ??? 

message: The BBC's quiz programme University Challenge had the following question in tonight's show ((between Newcastle and Royal Holloway College): Apparently an instance of an MPI, or mass psychogenic illness, the epidemic that hit the vicinity of Kashasha in Tanganyika in 1962, originating with a group of teenage schoolgirls, caused in those afflicted an outbreak of what? What's more someone from the Royal Holloway team knew the answer.  I don't know whether or not this adds any more authenticity to this article (maybe Jeremy Paxman got the question from from Wikipedia ;-). 80N 20:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  University Challenge 

message: Radiolab did a documentary on this. Highly intrugueing story, this. See . 90.128.144.42 (talk) 14:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Radio Lab

message: Both terms are used in the article, but redirect to the same page, called Mass Hysteria - which term is to be prefered? JackAidley (talk) 15:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Mass psychogenic illness' seems to be a term that would be used in the medical community, whereas 'mass hysteria' is a term more familiar to the common person. I think the context in which each is used in this article is fine. The reason we have redirects is so it doesn't matter which term we use. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 23:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Mass hysteria" is the actual term. "Mass psychogenic illness" (MPI) is Britlish jargon, like "foeti" and "bangers". But wp:uk dictates we go with the first poster's version, whatever that was. — LlywelynII 16:55, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mass Hysteria or Mass psychogenic illness?

message: It isn't entirely clear what actually happened, or how/why.  It's vaguely glossed over once or twice but that's it. Oddity- (talk) 09:40, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What happened is: a bunch of people started laughing uncontrollably for an unusual length of time. The article states that it is now known why it happened, but it does give suggestions. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 00:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Twas NOW, but t'ought be NOT. — LlywelynII 16:56, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wait, what? 

message: Does anyone know what that redlink is referring to? --babbage (talk) 18:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really sure, but a Google search gives some ideas. This result and this one (and other search results), both mention the Toronto Blessing as part of the "revival" of holy laughter, or somesuch gobbledygook. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 19:09, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Holy laughter movement"? 

message: The real MPI is not the laughing-epidemic, but the believing-in-the-laughing-epidemic-epidemic...
Come on people, use your brains please. It is a nice story, but there is no such thing as a laughing epidemic, especially not one that lasts for years. If the epidemic has spread for two years, why were there no journalists, scientists, officials, doctors at the place? Why does not one of the "thousands" of victims talk about the incident now? Let's all start a thinking-epidemic instead :-)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.236.48.125 (talk) 04:23, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  The United Nations Laughter Committee debated the topic, eventually voted, and then dispatched a "UN Laughter Police Force" to the area.   By the time they arrived, the 'laughing-epidemic' had disappated and all that remained was "chronic-giggling".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.67.104.4 (talk) 15:21, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

text: This article seems loony. References please. - Invmog (talk) 22:12, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obviously a hoax 

message: Shits terrifying if it’s real, Hopefully it’s not the ladder and isn’t some weird parasite that hasn’t been discovered. 24.189.231.178 (talk) 17:16, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imagine if it’s a parasite 

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