Still more evidence that, contrary to the narrative of Rachel Carson revisionists who blame her for letting millions die of malaria because the marvelous miracle powder DDT was banned, in reality there were concerns about DDT right from the beginning.https://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/original-documents-long-history-of-ddt-trouble-from-us-fish-and-wildlife-service/ …
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Are you equating wildlife concerns with public health concerns? Was the ban for use as malaria prevention warranted? Certainly the NYT agrees on the issue of crops.http://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/26/archives/norman-borlaug-ddt.html …
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With all the ways we have improved mosquito control since the days of DDT, that is one of the most infuriating tropes because if we had relied on DDT all this time, human losses to malaria would be much greater, especially with how widespread resistance to it has spread.
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