Mere Hysteria?

I read a blog post tonight that pulled from an article published in the British Medical Journal. The original article is by a Harvard professor who argues that the precautions that we – as parents of children with deadly allergies – and our children’s schools put into place are overreactions and only lead to more anxiety. The article was published back in December, but never fails to dredge up dark feelings. Read them for yourselves and ask if you think that this is all mere hysteria ….

Linking anorexia and autism, and peanut butter an overblown danger
http://calorielab.com/news/2009/06/21/anorexia-autism-peanut-allergy-hysteria/

This allergies hysteria is just nuts
http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pdfs/BMJ_081213_Nuts.pdf