Wolfgang,

Yes, of course that's it. Thank you. No, if the studies I'm looking forward to are really academic, not just journalistic fillers, they will now be beginning the end phase of observation - could be years before the best are printed. I just wanted to ask people to please let me know when (if) they see anything.

The first response that you'll most often hear is a throwaway, "I wasn't really serious - just going along with it." And the real crazies will be rarish. In the same thinking that in the year 1000, although there was much talk of End of the World, very few people actually headed for the hills. But, again, it's the human reaction to the failure, the "cognitive dissonance" that shows human social psychology. The reaction to the initial fear is less interesting - it will just show the usual bell curve of human responses to rumor.

THanks for the lead.