30 years ago it was radon. Everyone was running out to get detectors lest the ground beneath their houses killed them in their sleep. And who can forget Alar on

30 years ago it was radon. Everyone was running out to get detectors lest the ground beneath their houses killed them in their sleep. And who can forget Alar on apples or fat=bad or a thousand others. So far I have yet to read a comment addressing the actual analysis of the studies by the author of the article. It's all: "Everyone knows gas is bad; it's axiomatic and self-evident, and anyone who goes to the trouble of actually looking at the source data and run analysis on it is a moron."