21st century could be the 'age of paranoia,' warns leading scientist / EurekAlert, 19 October 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/wt-tcc101608.php
"Paranoia is on the increase and could go unchecked unless we take urgent action, claims a leading scientist. Dr Daniel Freeman, a Wellcome Trust fellow, warns that changes in how we live and work could mean that we are entering an "age of paranoia". For a decade Dr Freeman has been conducting pioneering research into paranoia at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and recently developed the world's first laboratory method of testing paranoia using virtual reality."