About Mold's Gym: What This Site Is (and Is Not)
Mold's Gym is an independent mold information and reporting site founded by Thomas Bowman Jr of Daytona Beach. Not a gym, not affiliated with Gold's Gym or RSG Group, educational — not medical advice.
What this is
Mold’s Gym is an independent mold information and consumer-reporting website: the science of mold and saunas, a nationwide evidence base on gym sanitation, a directory of the researchers and authors doing real work in this niche, petitions for a sauna-inspection mandate in all fifty states, and a consumer action center that routes complaints to the officials who are supposed to receive them.
It was founded in 2026 by Thomas Bowman Jr of Daytona Beach, Florida, and it grew out of his own case: the mold he documented and tested in a Gold’s Gym sauna in August 2024, the illness that followed, and the discovery — agency by agency — that almost nobody in America has a mandate to inspect a gym sauna. That case is told in full in The Story.
What this is not
Mold’s Gym is not a gym. It sells no memberships, operates no facilities, and offers no fitness services of any kind.
Mold’s Gym is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Gold’s Gym, RSG Group, or any other gym chain named on this site. Those names appear because they are the subjects of reporting, commentary, and a consumer’s documented case — the way a newspaper names the companies it covers.
Nothing here is medical advice. The Learn section summarizes published health-agency and scientific material for education. It does not diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical professional.
Nothing here is a legal verdict. Findings are labeled by evidence level — Documented, Reported, Alleged, Review-level — and attributed to their sources, including lawsuits, whose contents are allegations and are labeled as such.
How we handle other people’s work
This site promotes the people who research and report on mold — see Voices. The rules:
- Link freely. Any outside resource with validity gets linked.
- Score everything 0–10 on accuracy and quality, one published score under a single rubric.
- Republish at 7+. Work scoring 7, 8, 9, or 10 is republished here with attribution: the author’s name, credit, and a link to the original. Video is embedded from the creator’s own channel, never re-uploaded. Below 7: linked only.
- Alleged stays alleged. Unproven claims are never restated as facts in our voice, whoever made them.
- Authors can opt out. Any author who wants their work unlinked or removed can say so and it comes down.
Corrections
We would rather fix a fact than defend one. If something on this site is wrong — a date, a name, a finding, a label — tell us what and where, with a source if you have one, and a verified error gets corrected with a note. The site’s contact route opens with the full launch; until then, the record this site is built on lives in the founder’s own published videos and filings, linked throughout.
The name
Yes, it’s one letter off. It’s a criticism-and-education site wearing its subject on its sleeve: the gym where this started, and what was growing in it. The gold in our logo is one tint off, too — recognizably adjacent, visibly off, and entirely our own.