Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter
This reeks like a con-artists rephrasing perfectly normal and mundane observations into scary-sounding situations so that people would buy the air-filter companies that are funding your research.<p>I'm all for cleaner air and I don't doubt that the <i>already well-established</i> negative effects of high CO2 or VOC concentrations on us, but can we at least keep any discussion to non-anecdotal, strong scientific evidence? None the articles linked both here show any rigorous statistics that pinpoint cause and effects, it's all handwavy conjectures with "common sense" evidence and statistical dressing to show correlation. Correlation doesn't even necessarily mean causality. Some of the articles even have *may" in the title, you can be the judge.<p>Probably an unpopular opinion given the large amount of anecdotal science already posted.<p>Dust on carpet is bad and particularly if you don't clean it and let stuff grow - we all know that already and we don't need a laser pointer to show kids how scary it is. Just because you can see it doesn't necessarily mean it's worse, and just because you can't see it doesn't necessarily mean it's better.<p>It's just insanity that everyone is suddenly a scientists with a few anecdotes or links to articles that show correlation but not causality.