Tett, for example, was accused of scaremongering from the stage of the World Economic Forum.
But the claim has been dismissed by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates as scaremongering.
The National Union of Students rejected the attacks on a graduate tax as "baseless scaremongering".
Some would prefer for the usual scaremongering reasons that no new ones be built.
Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg said it was a "tragedy" and accused the Labour council of scaremongering.
But the Department of Health has accused the college of "scaremongering", and insists that NHS performance is strong.
In a statement, Circle said the figures were five months out-of-date and described the claims as "politically-motivated scaremongering".
But the Home Office told BBC Wales the federation was scaremongering, saying fewer than half that number would go.
It so happens that in this particular case the scaremongering turned to farce.
But a spokeswoman from the exam board, Edexcel, accused the NAHT of scaremongering.
Thanks to scaremongering by green lobbyists and organic farmers, and much media frenzy, most European shoppers will probably remain mistrustful.
But in this week's Scrubbing Up, Linda Geddes, the author of Bumpology, argues this can sometimes be misleading and scaremongering.
But she lays much of the responsibility for the MMR furore at the door of a scientifically illiterate, scaremongering press.
Conservative Reading East MP Rob Wilson accused the Labour party of "scaremongering" about the privatisation of GP services in the town.
Moreover, despite a lot of scaremongering, the geological evidence suggests that there is still plenty of black gold in the ground.
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Before his appointment, in a speech to Tory colleagues, he had described opponents of the government's planning reforms as "scaremongering Luddites".
In practice, though, few politicians are able to resist the bid for popularity that comes from running a scaremongering moral crusade.
However the health minister, Dr Dan Poulter, said the RCN's use of the word "crisis" was scaremongering and did not reflect reality.
Another senior administration official said accusations of scaremongering are to be expected.
Labour are indeed running an extreme and negative scaremongering campaign against the SNP but they have taken their template from the Tories.
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Local government minister Grant Shapps dismissed the union's claims as reckless scaremongering.
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I'm not scaremongering but it's about people needing to be aware.
Mr Packham said it showed people were "susceptible to the most ludicrous scaremongering that our society can muster on behalf of an animal".
On Wednesday the interior minister, Claudio Scajola, joined in the scaremongering.
But the idea that mass heritage is at risk is scaremongering, says Dr Sean Kingsley, a director of Wreck Watch International and a spokesman for Odyssey.
Lynn Berger, who runs the Woolpack Inn near Boot in the Eskdale Valley, is more concerned about the effect of "scaremongering" on tourism than the facility itself.
The SNP dismissed what it called "scaremongering" over defence jobs.
Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates dismissed the claims as scaremongering and the NHS said there were no plans to downgrade Kettering, which also has an accident and emergency department.
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