What Makes a Germophobe? ⋆ Brownstone Institute

What Makes a Germophobe? ⋆ Brownstone Institute

What Makes a Germophobe? by Steve Templeton at Brownstone Institute The following is an excerpt from Steve Templeton's book, Fear of a Microbial Planet: How a Germophobic Safety Culture Makes Us Less Safe. Germophobia, also known by the more clinical term, mysophobia, isn’t generally considered a condition all by itself. Instead, it’s usually associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Germs just happen to be one thing that people on …