By Marie-louise Olson PUBLISHED: 22:47 EST, 27 October 2013 | UPDATED: 04:50 EST, 28 October 2013 A physician and national expert on the world of zombie neuroscience sparked fury among listeners of a radio show when he pretended that a zombie invasion was really happening – and people believed him. Dr Steven Schlozman, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Lecturer in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was interviewed on the radio show, Coast to Coast, hosted by Ian Punnett. Schlozman was on the show in 2011 to talk about his book, The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks From the Apocalypse, which was released that year.
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Dr Steven Schlozman, a child psychiatrist, was on the radio show, Coast to Coast to talk about his book, The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks From the Apocalypse
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The host of the show, Ian Punnett, often interviews science fiction writers as though their novels are based on a true story
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Schlozman talked on air about a zombie disease called the Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency syndrome
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Schlozman says he thought listeners knew he was messing with them
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However, hundreds believed him and complained when they discovered it was a joke
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In 1938, science fiction writer Orson Welles performed a dramatic adaptation of War of the World on the radio, also pretending the world was ending
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The stunt sparked outrage at the time
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To listen to the full show on Coast to Coast click here
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