No, Your Candy Isn’t Poisoned ... But Climate Change Is Coming for Your Beer

This Spooky Season, two twisted tales ...

In the first fearsome fable, an old monster returns: drugs in the Halloween candy. Fear not, because while there are terrifying candy-looking drugs out there, they're not aimed at kids. But the familiar holiday myth is a reliable zombie, dumb yet unkillable. To address the misnformation, we dress as wet, sexy vampires and go in search of truth ... or treats.

In the second sinister story, a terrifying force develops a taste for wine: we learn that climate change will actually improve the taste of Bordeaux. (But at a ghastly cost: the taste of beer will get worse.)

In this episode, we confront the uncomfortable: that some myths retain their power no matter how much debunking goes on, and that some truths are so scary we don't want to face the nuance.

Pour yourself a glass of the future and bite down on some razor-sharp apples with us in this Very Journos Halloween ...

(Mwah ha ha ha hah!)

NOTES

Judy Klemensrud's NYT Op-Ed
More on the fentanyl fear
Spooky Halloween spending numbers here and here
NatGeo and Agence France-Presse have a similar take on the Bordeaux news
“The weather isn’t climate change”
“The good news on climate”
“Why climate change is good for the world”
Farmers may benefit from climate change
Get ready to cruise the Northwest Passage