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  • I take a lot of that mold work with a figurative grain of salt. I’ll confess I’m not familiar with the aspergillus literature, but stachybotrys risks are way overblown. The concerns are driven by courts rather than the medical literature.

    The last time I had a deep dive into it there was a single case of stachybotrys poisoning which occurred when a farmhand fell into a silo of moldy hay. He had a complete recovery within 10 days. That was deep dive was 15 years ago so maybe something else has come up?

    All of these molds are present in the environment. If you spend any time hiking in the woods or around hay or barns you are exposed to reasonably high levels.



  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.catoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldWhat is "FUD"?
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    11 months ago

    As others have said Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

    It entered tech lingo way back in the 90s when Microsoft was fighting an early wave of Linux on desktop. They would troll and present themselves as a reliable alternative.

    They weren’t the first to do it. IBM’s unofficial motto in the 70s was “nobody gets fired for going with IBM”.