Popular Fear

From Y2K to WMD, just how gullible could people become? Fear is the best friend of politicians, whether it is real, half real or totally fake. So much fear, so many threats, how many of them are real? The following SERCount^TM Ratings Report uses the search engine result count to rank popularity.

Diseases are usually one of the biggest scare. Funny thing is: people sometimes are more afraid of diseases heard on the news (e.g. SARS), than the disease that actually killed many (e.g. AIDS) but frequent less on the news.