paedophile-phobia

— Leadership gurus, self-help manuals, management consultants, thinktanks, alternative medicine, postmodernist academics who say all truth is relative, creation science, horoscopes, Holocaust-deniers, "trickledown" economists, paranoid Yankee imperialists, paranoid anti-Americans, al Qaeda and its Western fellow-travellers, The Third Way, globalisers and anti-globalisers, apocalyptic world-history trendspotters, therapy-addicts, Di-mania, Bible Code crackers, New Agers, paedophile-phobia, people who think they've been abducted by aliens, the National Lottery, the dotcom bubble — these are just some of the manifestations of the crazy irrationality that, [Francis] Wheen reveals, has run rampage over the modern world.