Even a fake and overblown poisoning threat caused real economic and security costs

Evidence

Although the threat was greatly overblown, it damaged Israeli export of agricultural products. In predictable modeling, other groups launched poisoning scares, requiring Western countries to beef up surveillance and safety measures. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2256

Categorization

• QUESTION: Bandura treats poisoning scares as ‘predictable modeling’ — worth chasing memetic contagion literature on copycat fear tactics.
• XREF: connects to: A single fraudulent lien filing waves can impose massive real costs on officials — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 673