User:Jams Watton/Sandbox

Etymology
The phrase stems from the idea of being given / fed manure and kept in the dark by others, which is akin to how mushrooms are usually cultivated.

Phrase

 * 1) From the practice of not being kept up to date with new or changed information, and instead given incorrect or inadequate information (often within work / business environments).
 * We never heard about those changes coming, and were told everything was staying the same... typical mushroom syndrome by the management again.
 * 1) Commonly used in medicine, to describe the same practice of withholding information and supplying disinformation.
 * The local physicians felt they were suffering from mushroom syndrome, having the true scale of the infection hidden from themselves, instead being fed fictitious statistics.