Last month I wrote about the meth myth, and how a moral
panic and media beat-up cost blameless tenants and landlords their homes and
lots of money.
The "How did this happen?" post-mortems are going on
at present but it's pretty clear that real facts were nowhere to be seen when
the decision makers were writing the rules.
This makes one wonder what other
moral "pandemics" are similarly based on fiction or fear rather than
fact. How about house sales to foreign home buyers?
