This is just my opinion, so take it for what it's worth.
Radon is just another way to rip off the public to get more of their
money. They know there's a sucker born every minute.

Maybe, and yes.

People have
lived in houses for thousands of years and have survived. In fact
they once lived in caves which would seem to be more likely to get
this radon, if it exists....

Radon definitely exists. It's an inert gas with a relatively short
half-life than can suddendly turn into a radioactive heavy metal that can
easily get set into your lungs. Once there it's a good candidate to start
a cancer growth.


My only possible belief is that in newer homes, people are mostly
living inside a plastic bag, with all the house wrap and styrofoam.
In that case, it's not just radon, its a buildup of everything and a
lack of oxygen.

Good point. Tight homes will obviously have a higher concentration of
radon than those that leak like a sieve.

I for one would not buy or build such a house. I'd
rather spend a few extra dollars on heating than suffocate inside a
plastic bag of a house.

I'd be more worried about all the other pollutants in the home and the
chemicals coming from all the polystyrene, the vinyl siding, and all
the other synthetics, than the invisible radon that seems more like
believing in ghosts that fact.