Is DDT really good for me?
Michael Crichton relays that we should never have banned DDT in a lecture of his at CalTech (among lots more meaty claims) while calling out environmentalism of religious zealotry.
When a magazine article in “21st Century Science Tech” I ran across made a parallel claim I was interested.
The 1972 U.S. ban on DDT is responsible for a genocide 10 times larger than that for which we sent Nazis to the gallows at Nuremberg. It is also responsible for a menticide which has already condemned one entire generation to a dark age of anti-science ignorance, and is now infecting a new one.
I did another google search to collect my research. I found one back-patting environmentalist group page on DDT, it’s problems, and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Also, thankfully a posting on The Straight Dope (which previously has shed light on terrible confoundings like the scroll lock key) addressing 21st Century Science.
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