Jim O's column addresses the issue of mold, and who's really affected by it.
Frankenstein, Dracula and the Bogeyman don’t scare anyone in our enlightened 21st century. The blood-curdling monsters of today bear names like Stachybotrys, Aspergillus, Chaetomium and Pennicillium. Don’t worry about pronouncing them. They go under the simpler terms of fungus or mold and these denizens of hell get conjured up almost every day by high priests of black magic otherwise known as trial lawyers. One of the hottest scams going nowadays in America is toxic mold litigation.
That’s where homeowners and commercial building tenants, egged on by the aforementioned sorcerers, sue everyone in sight over real or imagined ailments induced by fungal growth resulting from moisture in confined spaces. All that’s needed to enact a massive redistribution of wealth from hard-working folks to the parasite class is a sick person, a slick lawyer, a gullible jury, and a medical “expert” or two of dubious credentials and motives able to point not necessarily to proof, but to a plausible case of mold infection.