Febrile:
: marked or caused by fever : feverish • a febrile reaction caused by an allergy [Merriam-Webster]
Noted in “Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future,” Arran Frood, NewScientist (24 February 2018, paywall):
That’s not too shabby a record, although beating a poll might not seem that impressive in today’s febrile political climate. And the prediction markets have a downside: they can be rigged. Rajiv Sethi, an economist at Columbia University in New York, showed that in one prediction market for the 2012 US presidential election, a single trader accounted for a third of all bets on Mitt Romney. They may well have been trying to manipulate public confidence in him winning.
