Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:

Daminozide (Alar) - a.k.a. The Great Apple Scare

• Alar: The Great Apple Scare
• Media Myth: Nine Worst Business Stories (#2 Alar-ming Apples)
• Alar Five Years Later
• An Unhappy Anniversary: The Alar 'Scare' Ten Years Later
• Apple Scare: Alar 20 Years Later
• Apples and Crossbones
• European Commission Review Report for the Active Substance Daminozide
• The Politics of Cancer Testing
• Doomsday Postponed
• Congressman Rohrabacher's Floor Speech on Global Warming
• Facts vs. Fears, A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by Adam Lieberman and Simona Kwon [Chapter 17 - Alar]
• Julia Child vs. Meryl Streep
• ACSH gets an A (for Apples!) for unveiling NRDC-inspired Alar scare

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