Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:

Aminotriazole - a.k.a. The Great Cranberry Scare

• Facts vs. Fears, A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by Adam Lieberman and Simona Kwon [Chapter 1 - The "Cranberry Scare" of 1959]
• 40 Years Ago This Month: Americans Panicked Over Cranberry Safety Scientists Reflect on the Anniversary of the First "Carcinogen" Panic of the Century
• Doomsday Postponed
• Congressman Rohrabacher's Floor Speech on Global Warming
• Scares Du Jour
• Caveat Comestor: New Yorker Cites ACSH on Cranberry Scare of ’59
• How The Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare Of '59 Created The Chemophobia Movement

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