Greetings! It's almost October, which means it's also almost time for the Halloween "OMG your child might be poisoned" scare stories. Joel Best has an incredibly helpful website debunking the paranoia.  (In a related note, the '80s were a weird time to grow up, between the Halloween panic and the Satanic Panic and the PMRC and all that. Our town was full of the panic, but disappointingly short on actual occult happenings.)