It lurks under your kitchen sink. It hides inside your walls. It appears in

streaks in your garage, in your attic, and in your basement. It's in your

bathroom and in your shower. It can be found almost anywhere you look for it in

your house. And it's said to be so dangerous that you need to spend thousands of

dollars to have it remediated. But guess what? The truth is it probably won't hurt

you at all. Black mold is coming right up on Skeptoid.

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Your listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. Black mold,

peril or pro-Zeic. Turn the TV to the Home Improvement channel and your

libel to see work crews tearing apart old kitchens in respirators and hazmat gear,

doing tens of thousands of dollars worth of demolition and sampling and testing and eradication

and reconstruction. You'll hear stories of victims who inhaled or ingested black mold and

developed debilitating diseases, cancers, Parkinson's, lungs filled with blood, neurologic

disorders, birth defects, vision and hearing loss, and organ failure. Horror stories right out of

the tabloids. Could this innocent looking black mold, living in so many of our homes,

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