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Wittes et al reported a remarkable challenge-rechallenge experiment where a healthy male geologist took both his third and his fourth weekly mefloquine tablet together with half a bottle of whisky, and on both occasions experienced acute paranoid delusions, depression and suicidal ideation; a fellow geologist who shared the same whisky bottle (and who was taking no antimalaria medication) experienced no such effects.
Wrapped tightly in his Web cocoon, the First Netizen of the Church of Cyberspace suffers hourly in the service of his new media victims: the timorous who prefer the Internet to the terror of face-to-face contact; the paranoid who extrapolate "the world is out to get me" conspiracies from the detritus of politics; Game Boy boys; phone phreaks; the kids down at the Smut Shack; and the teeming millions whose idea of a reality check is consulting a Web address.
He suffered from what was described as "incurable paranoid delirium," and left that asylum only to enter another.
It's the idea that perfect competition might be just around the corner, not the competition itself, that keeps the paranoid prosperous.
Pipes, in a book called Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From , pinpoints the Crusades of the 11 th century--the wars waged by Europe's Christians on the Muslims who controlled Palestine--as its first mass outbreak.