Experts laud Haunted Housing:
"Cassandra Chrones Moore’s Haunted Housing is fascinating and compelling--everything you want to know about the fears and reality of the dangers of radon, lead, asbestos, and electromagnetic fields. This is a bible for buyers and sellers of homes, regulators, legislators, and public policy analysts. The book is sensible, scholarly, skeptical, and wonderfully well written. In the public policy arena, it should spur a reevaluation of where and how we spend our resources to save lives, an evaluation that is long overdue."
--Professor Bruce N. Ames
Director, Environmental Health Sciences Center
University of California at Berkeley
"As symptomatic childhood lead poisoning has essentially disappeared with plummeting blood lead levels, we are faced with an ‘epidemic by edict.’ A small, organized group of bureaucrats, environmentalists, and suspect scientists, the so-called lead mafia, is working within the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Using questionable methodology and flawed data to redefine childhood lead poisoning, that cadre of activists has succeeded in promoting parental anxiety and instituting a wasteful, multi-billion-dollar universal childhood lead screening and abatement program. By deflecting funds and attention away from serious health threats to U.S. children, such as violence, abuse, drugs, alcohol, pediatric AIDS, and lack of immunizations, the lead-poisoning scare misprioritizes our children’s needs. Dr. Cassandra Chrones Moore, by exposing the shady practices of lead activists, high officials, and government agencies, offers the alternative of a more objective and rational approach to childhood lead exposure."
--Edgar J. Schoen
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of
California at San Francisco
"Cassandra Chrones Moore provides an informative and enlightening narrative on how environmental paranoia affects the home buyer and the real estate business. More important, she candidly presents the politics and flawed reasoning behind many of the misconceptions that have contributed to the lay public’s fears of perceived risks from asbestos, radon, lead, and EMF exposures. This book is a ‘must’ for home buyers and owners, real estate agents, and policymakers."
--Brooke T. Mossman
Professor of Pathology, University of Vermont