3. 70's: Global cooling -- Ice Age Coming
31. Cartoons and magazine covers webarchive; pdf
39. NASA Global Land-Ocean Temperature
31. Cartoons and magazine covers webarchive; pdf
39. NASA Global Land-Ocean Temperature
35. DDT
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If Bill Gates wants to beat malaria he should back DDT. Mircosoft co-founder Bill Gates is fascinating. So is the 19-page annual letter that describes the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic institute. But some of the foundation's strategies are baffling.
Deadly Environmental Program Ends. As reported in the Investor's Business Daily (9/18/06) The World Health Organization reversed its 30 year opposition to the use of DDT — a very effective pesticide. This is good news for millions of 3rd World citizens, millions of whom have died from malaria, yellow fever, typhus, dengue, plague, encephalitis, and other insect-borne diseases.
Hooray for DDT's life-saving comeback. Who says there's never any good news? After more than 30 years and tens of millions dead — mostly children — the World Health Organization (WHO) has ended its ban on DDT. DDT is the most effective anti-mosquito, anti-malaria pesticide known. But thanks to the worldwide environmental movement and politically correct bureaucrats in the United States and at the United Nations, the use of this benign chemical has been discouraged in Africa and elsewhere, permitting killer mosquitoes to spread death. I don't expect any apologies from the people who permitted this to happen. But I am thankful this nightmare is ending.
Reigniting the Fight Against Malaria: Bring Back DDT and Save Lives. There's an important new coalition in Washington, and it's designed … to stop malarial mosquitoes. It's a coalition that lives by the law of the jungle: Kill them before they kill you.
Where Are The Greens On Malaria? Every single day I get e-mail from various environmental groups warning about global warming. Matt Drudge posts on his Web site the latest exhortations about this issue from scientists, politicians, Hollywood celebs, and, of course, Al Gore. A coalition of environmentalists and institutional investors recently laid out for AOL customers a listing of which companies will be best prepared for climate change. Greens may be concerned for their wallets, but when it comes to the lives of Africans, these environmentalists are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.
Greenpeace, WWF Repudiate Anti-DDT Agenda. Spokesmen for Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, activist environmental groups that have led the effort to ban worldwide use of the pesticide DDT, have admitted to the New York Times that DDT may be necessary and desirable after all.
Reject Environmentalism, Not DDT. The West Nile virus deaths being reported across North America are a grim echo of a larger tragedy. Each year a million lives are taken worldwide by another mosquito-borne killer: malaria. Though nearly eradicated decades ago, malaria has resurged with a vengeance. But the real tragedy is that its horrific death toll is largely preventable. The most effective agent of mosquito control, the pesticide DDT, has been essentially discarded — discarded based not on scientific concerns about its safety, but on environmental dogma.
The myth of DDT versus the reality of malaria in Africa: The United States has just assumed the largest burden of forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by 18 mostly African countries. It's no wonder these countries can't repay their debts when they suffer the enormous human and economic costs of malaria. According to Harvard development expert Jeffrey Sachs, malaria cuts in half the potential growth of African countries.
DDT Saves Lives. The environmentalists' spin has taken hold and, in the conventional wisdom, DDT is associated with the death of Nature, if not the end of the world. Its use has been banned in North America and Europe. However, if this stuff was so bad and we basically dumped tons of it on our farms up until the 1970's, then why haven't we all dropped dead in the streets?
How Precaution Kills: The Demise of DDT and the Resurgence of Malaria. Most of our preoccupations arise from the modern paradox: while our longevity, health and environment has never been better, we spend more time than ever before worrying about all three. Classic concerns are the various scares — alar, saccharine, breast implants, passive smoking, nuclear power, pesticide residues, children's vaccines — and more recently, mobile phones, genetically modified foods and global warming. In some of these cases, the concern was completely invalid, in others the scare was blown out of all proportion.
The Myth of DDT, Pesticides and Health Risks: This one is quick and easy: There has never been a single documented death from the recommended use of DDT or any other pesticide.
Applying the Precautionary Principle to DDT. When comparing the relative risks from banning DDT use to the risk of continued targeted use indoors, it is clear that a proper application of the precautionary principle would not only support continued use, but ethics would also require it.
Spray-averse officials just really bug me: We shouldn't continue to treat mosquitoes like an endangered species. We should use pesticides to kill them at the first sign of West Nile.
Environmental Genocide: DDT was developed by Dr. Paul Müller, a Swiss chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948, in recognition of the enormous medical importance of this remarkable chemical substance. Though widely used for only three decades, DDT has been justifiably credited with preventing more human deaths by disease than any chemical ever concocted.
The Fruits of Eco-Extremism: The unnecessary banning of DDT has resulted in the worldwide resurgence of malaria and the deaths of millions, and the banning of freon and similar CFCs will result in the deaths of millions more.
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Mosquito-borne diseases: West Nile Fever, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Malaria, Dengue Fever.
By 1984, DDT resistance in Anopheles culcifacies was found over much of India (Georghiou, 1986). ... DDT and Malaria is powered by WordPress at Duke …
History of Malaria and its Control in India: L ong before the British colonised India, malaria was a serious problem for the country, imposing enormous economic costs ...
History of malaria from ancient history through the elimination of malaria in the United States highlighting the major scientific breakthroughs and the on going ...
DDT and Other Pesticide Scares
If you or your kids contract malaria or yellow fever as a result of an encounter with mosquitos, or if there is a West Nile Virus outbreak in your neighborhood, I predict you will no longer care how Canada's bald eagle and peregrine falcon populations might be affected by DDT.1 Mosquitos also carry equine encephalitis, canine and feline heartworms, and other diseases, so they are also a threat to your pets and livestock.
The extremists in the environmental movement (and many vegetarians) consider people to be no more important than animals and plants.2 And "activists" are the people most likely to appear on television, because television thrives on controversy more than truth. However, God intended man to "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth."3 That doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about the welfare of plants and animals, but it does mean, in my humble opinion, that people are more important than animals, especially disease-carrying parasites.
Rachel Carson has her own little subsection at the bottom of this page.
Throughout the course of the Second World War, DDT protected millions of Allied troops from contracting malaria and other infectious diseases like typhus and ...
DDT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to Effectiveness of DDT against malaria: When it was first introduced in World War II, DDT was very effective in reducing malaria morbidity ...
DDT in the United States - DDT in Australia - DDT (disambiguation) - Category:DDT
Malaria was effectively eliminated in the United States by the use of DDT in the National Malaria Eradication Program (1947–52). The concept of eradication prevailed in 1955 in the Eighth World Health Assembly: DDT was adopted as a primary tool in the fight against malaria.
In 1953, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an antimalarial program in parts of Liberia as a pilot project to determine the feasibility of malaria eradication in tropical Africa. However these projects encountered difficulties that foreshadowed the general retreat from malaria eradication efforts across tropical Africa by the mid-1960s.[127]
DDT was banned in the US in 1972, after the discussion opened in 1962 by Silent Spring, written by American biologist Rachel Carson, which launched the environmental movement in the West. The book catalogued the environmental impacts of indiscriminate DDT spraying and suggested that DDT and other pesticides cause cancer and that their agricultural use was a threat to wildlife. The U.S. Agency for International Development supports indoor DDT spraying as a vital component of malaria control programs and has initiated DDT and other insecticide spraying programs in tropical countries.[128]
Roberts's talk, titled “DDT and Malaria Control: Past, Present, and Future,” was given to a conference sponsored by Accuracy in Media in Washington, D.C., ...
Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, better known as DDT, is one of the chemicals used for Internal Residual Spraying. In the 1960s, DDT use was outlawed by ...
DDT obviously helped control Malaria cases in SEA countries before the 1970s. If DDT can control Malaria and can inhibit those insects that are resistant to our ...
Tren R and Salimonu D, Killing the Malaria Killer, ModernGhana.com, April 23, 2010. Bate R et al., DDT and Urogenital Malformations in Newborn Boys in a ...
The half-life of DDT in an aquatic environment is about 150 years
An Alphabet Soup of Chemical Myths: Environmental advocacy groups have spared no effort to create the impression that organochlorines are extremely resistant to degradation and thus difficult to remove from the environment. Contrary to these beliefs, there is plentiful evidence that biodegradation of these substances is widespread everywhere. Moreover, in the quantities commonly found in the environment, organochlorines are not hazardous to human health. book
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Ames, P (1966). "DDT Residues in the eggs of the Osprey in the North-eastern United States and their relation to nesting success". J. Appl. Ecol. (British Ecological Society) 3 ((Suppl.)): 87–97. doi:10.2307/2401447. JSTOR 2401447.
Joel Bitman1, Helene C. Cecil1, George F. Fries1 Science 1 May 1970: Vol. 168 no. 3931 pp. 594-596
Does DDT Inhibit Carbonic Anhydrase?
Barry H. Dvorchik1, Michael Istin1, Thomas H. Maren1
At a concentration of 50 to 100 micrograms per milliliter, p,p'-DDT (and p,p'-DDE) did not inhibit the rate of hydration or dehydration of carbon dioxide by carbonic anhydrase. At concentrations greater than 500 micrograms per milliliter, partial inhibition of the rate of dehydration of carbonic acid was observed, but this involved precipitation of drug in the reaction vessel. This degree of inhibition suggests that DDT may not inhibit carbonic anhydrase effectively at the usual concentrations found in tissue after exposure of organisms to DDT in the environment.
Science 14 May 1971: Vol. 172 no. 3984 pp. 728-729
A.S. Cooke Environmental Pollution Volume 4, Issue 2, February 1973, Pages 85–152
Literature has been reviewed concerning shell thinning in avian eggs by environmental pollutants. Field evidence indicates that the declines in shell thickness observed in certain species in North America and Great Britain since the Second World War have been largely caused by residues of pp′-DDE or other compounds or metabolites of the DDT group. In North America, polychlorinated biphenyls and cyclodiene insecticides have played no more than minor roles, although in Britain cyclodienes have probably made a significant contribution. Mercury compounds are not apparently associated with the shell thickness declines.
Results from controlled experiments, in which laying birds have been exposed to pollutants, generally support these suggestions. Laboratory investigations indicate an interspecific difference in shell thinning response, gallinaceous species tending to be the most resistant and falcons the most susceptible.
In a laying bird, organochlorine residues affect many biochemical mechanisms known to be essential for proper shell formation and the extent of the contribution of each affected mechanism towards decreasing shell thickness probably depends on variables such as species and environmental conditions. There is no evidence to suggest that one mechanism is always dominant irrespective of the conditions.
In North America shell thinning has often been associated with population decreases, but in Britain declines in shell thickness are not thought to be responsible for the population decreases observed in certain raptor species.
The Lies of Rachel Carson by Dr. J. Gordon Edwards. (Full text, without tables and illustrations, from the Summer 1992 21st Century). A well-known entomologist ..
Sick Argument: Global Warming and the Spread of Tropical ... September 29, 1997
Examples of misguided policies resulting in unnecessary illness and death abound. Through the use of DDT, malaria mortality in Ceylon fell from tens of thousands of cases to a few hundred each year. DDT was considered one of the safest pesticides in use. However, DDT was banned in the United States by the EPA for fear it was causing death and reproductive problems in bald eagles and other raptors - despite the fact that most scientists found no links between DDT use and thinner eggshells or bird deformities.
Extract from the American Council on Science and Health publication "Facts Versus Fears" - Edition 3, June 1998. © American Council on Science and Health - all rights reserved.
100 things you should know about DDT: July 26, 1999,
"To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT… In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been inevitable." (National Academy of Sciences, 1970.)
The Environmentalist Evil: 2000.07.18
A great number of people tend to regard Environmentalism as a movement for cleaner air and water, for a better environment for man. But the environmentalists' actions demonstrate otherwise. Clear evidence of their disregard for human life is their decades-long campaign to ban the insecticide DDT, even for specific use against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Whatever the long-term effects of DDT on human health, they should certainly be an option for the people at risk from the ravaging short-term effects of malaria.
How Good Intentions Kill: Dec 8, 2000
BY BANNING THE USE OF DDT WOULD COST LIVES AND WEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD, SAYS ROGER BATE
One need only compare malaria rates in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique to see the effect of banning DDT.
Pregnant women exposed to the insecticide DDT are much more likely to give birth prematurely, or to full-term but low birth weight babies, says ...
2002
West Nile Virus: The Environmentalist's Epidemic. (2002.09.28 )
So why, in the face of having their scientific arguments refuted and with the benefits of technology so clear, are the environmentalists able to keep the use of pesticides like DDT illegal?
DDT is safe: 07/03/2002
just ask the professor who ate it for 40 years. DDT was introduced as an insecticide during the 1940s. In Churchill's words: "The excellent DDT powder has been found to yield astonishing results against insects of all kinds, from lice to mosquitoes." And astonishing they were. DDT was particularly effective against the anopheles mosquito, which is the carrier of malaria, and people once hoped that DDT would eradicate malaria worldwide. Consider Sri Lanka. In 1946, it had three million cases, but the introduction of DDT reduced the numbers, by 1964, to only 29. In India, the numbers of malaria cases fell from 75 million to around 50,000.
How mosquitoes spread West Nile, but not HIV: 08/14/2002
Think of mosquitoes as having two tiny straws inside their proboscis, or "stinger." Through one they spit an anti-clotting saliva to thin your blood, which they sip through the other.
2003
Manto hails DDT against malaria - News24 Apr 10, 2003
Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has hailed the success of DDT against malaria despite frequent arguments that the insecticide is ...
Reports say DDT has reduced the number of malaria cases in South Africa by 42%.
Activists are to be Feared More than Pesticides.2003.08.11
As public health officials consider spraying pesticides to control the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, anti-pesticide activists claim that spraying devastates birds and other wildlife. But such claims should be viewed with skepticism.
Science Rejects Anti-Pesticide Claims. October 1, 2003
Public health officials across the country are considering widespread spraying of pesticides to control the mosquito-borne West Nile virus. Anti-pesticide environmentalists claim spraying will devastate bird populations and other wildlife, but sound science shows the pesticides are safe and necessary. West Nile virus and other factors in the natural environment pose greater threats to birds and wildlife than pesticide spraying.
2004
DDT, Eggshells, and Me - Reason.com Jan 7, 2004
The controversy over the pesticide DDT and bird eggshell thinning is ... The three species were peregrine falcons, bald eagles, and ospreys.
What the World Needs Now Is DDT - New York Times Apr 11, 2004
Omission Speaks Volumes on Malaria Relief. August 1, 2006
DDT cannot be ignored in discussions about reforming anti-malaria efforts.
DDT: A Case Study In Scientific Fraud. October 1, 2004
Gordon Edwards –
The chemical compound that has saved more human lives than any other in history, DDT, was banned by order of one man, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Public pressure was generated by one popular book and sustained by faulty or fraudulent research. Widely believed claims of carcinogenicity, toxicity to birds, anti-androgenic properties, and prolonged environmental persistence are false or grossly exaggerated. The worldwide effect of the U.S. ban has been millions of preventable deaths.
Apparently there are people who take mosquitos seriously enough to sleep in a mosquito net.
The alleged thinning of eggshells by DDT in the diet was effective propaganda ... continued to believe that DDT could cause birds to lay thin- shelled eggs.
USAID in the Hot Seat -- Again - TCS Daily - Ideas in Action Nov 19, 2004
Senator Brownback (R-Kansas) is concerned that even though in the past five years US-funded malaria control efforts -- through the offices of ...
Malaria is a preventable and curable disease. Yet it continues to claim the lives of over one million people each year, with Africa, Asia and the Near East suffering the most losses. USAID must change its policy or its health officials should be replaced by those who will.
2005
The True Story of DDT, PCB, and Dioxin book
Przemysław Mastalerz - 2005 - DDT (Insecticide)
Ingestion of DDT with food may decrease the thickness of eggshells in some birds. 2. The reproduction of birds is impaired because the eggs with thin shells are ...
Endemic northern malaria reached 68°N latitude in Europe during the 19th century, where the summer mean temperature only irregularly exceeded 16°C, the ...
Anti-pesticide Activists Perpetuate Diseases that Kill Millions. July 1, 2005
Malaria is a disease that kills three times more African children than AIDS. Hundreds of millions are infected and up to two million die annually. But as the body count continues to mount, environmental activists and international aid agencies continue a deadly campaign against DDT.
Uganda Fighting for Right to Eradicate Malaria. November 1, 2005
Until now, Uganda has bowed to outside pressure, but Health Minister Jim Muhwezi is determined to use DDT. Speaking at a World Malaria Day commemoration in April 2005, Muhwezi noted, "DDT has been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective and least expensive method of fighting malaria."
DDT Saves Lives - WSJ Nov 8, 2005
It's horrifying enough that malaria -- a preventable and curable disease -- claims one million lives every year and that most victims are Africa's ...
DDT Is the Only Real Weapon for Combating Malaria. December 1, 2005
U.S. taxpayers spend about $200 million annually on malaria control efforts. Ironically, almost none of this money is spent to kill or repel the mosquitoes that spread disease. The money is instead spent on anti-malarial drugs and insecticide-treated bed nets that aren't very effective.
Bishop Tutu Joins the Call to Fight Malaria with DDT. Dec 1, 2005
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu … has joined more than 100 prominent scientists and human rights advocates signing a petition urging the use of DDT to stop an African holocaust of malaria deaths.
2006
Tanzania reverses ban on DDT. May 9, 2006
Tanzania is lifting a 2004 ban on the pesticide DDT so it can be used to fight mosquitoes carrying malaria in the east African nation.
Africa Marks Malaria Day; US Rethinking DDT - Heartland.org Jun 1, 2006
Every year, Africa Malaria Day--April 25--is marked by promises to bring malaria under control. But every year the calls for action turn out to be ...
Sprayed in small quantities, just twice a year, on the walls and eaves of mud-and-thatch or cinderblock homes, DDT keeps 90 percent of mosquitoes from entering, and it irritates any that do come in, so they rarely bite. No other insecticide at any price does that. DDT also kills mosquitoes that land on walls. Used this way, virtually no DDT ever reaches the environment. But the health results are astounding.
Africa Launches DDT Attack Against Malaria. July 1, 2006
Constant pressure from concerned scientists and public interest groups appears to be paying off for the people of Africa, as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has endorsed the indoor spraying of DDT to battle malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The decision, announced on May 2, is expected to turn the tide on a disease that has killed more than 1 million people each and every year since environmental activists effectively banned DDT in favor of ineffective tools such as bed nets.
Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High | Fox News Jul 6, 2006
So what causes thin bird egg shells? The potential culprits are many. Some that have been reported in the scientific literature include: oil; lead; ...
DDT to Return as Weapon Against Malaria, Experts Say. August 1, 2006
DDT, a notorious symbol of environmental degradation, is poised to make a comeback. International experts are touting the widely banned pesticide as a best bet to save millions of human lives threatened by malaria.
WHO Backs Use of DDT Against Malaria : NPR Sep 15, 2006
The World Health Organization today announced a major policy change. It's actively backing the controversial pesticide DDT as a way to ...
Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes? September 21, 2006
Last week's announcement that the World Health Organization lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in global public health since… well, 1943 when DDT was first used to combat insect-borne diseases like typhus and malaria. Overlooked in all the hoopla over the announcement, however, is the terrible toll in human lives, illness and poverty caused by the tragic, decades-long ban.
DDT Ban Makes Sense — Only If You're Rich. October 17, 2006
In an affluent, mostly urban country such as the U.S., where malaria had been all but eradicated, the DDT ban was little more than an inconvenience. In less-developed countries, where DDT was banned under U.S. pressure, the consequences were disastrous. From Swaziland to Belize, malaria was soon epidemic again. Millions died.
The Green-Big Tobacco Death Alliance. October 17, 2006
What has brought these two seemingly unlikely forces together? The recent decision by the World Health Organization to reverse its 30 year-old ban on DDT for indoor use to combat malaria — one of the biggest killers of children in the Third World — after a mountain of scientific studies have repeatedly found that DDT is safe, inexpensive and the best way to eradicate mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
Consensus is Nonsensus in Scientific Matters | Heartland ... Nov 13, 2006
The concept of consensus means little more than a majority of opinions on a given matter. In politics this is the best we can do in making ...
The US government has had a poor record in resolving scientific disputes. Furthermore, the resulting unscientific government policies have been harmful, costly, and deadly (such as the EPA DDT ban, the proposed EPA chlorine ban, exaggerations of harmful effects of low level radiation, acid rain, etc). In fact the 9000 pages of expert testimony given at the 1972 EPA hearings on DDT were ignored. This resulted in the DDT ban with the resulting millions of deaths from malaria that could have been easily controlled by DDT. The EPA continues with the 34 year DDT ban continues to this today.
Nine Worst Business Stories of the Last 50 Years -- [#1] DDT. December 14, 2006
"When a malaria-endemic country stops using DDT, there is a cessation or great reduction in the numbers of houses sprayed with insecticides, and this is accompanied by rapid growth of malaria burden within the country," according to the Malaria Foundation International, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting malaria. The group notes that "without DDT, malaria rates are returning to those seen in the 1940s, affecting additional millions of infants, children, and adults."
Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006. December 14, 2006
It only took 30 years, tens of millions of lives lost, billions sickened and trillions of dollars of economic growth foregone, but the World Health Organization finally ended its ban on use of the insecticide DDT to kill malaria-bearing mosquitoes. It's great news for developing nations that want to employ the most affordable and effective anti-malarial tool. So what should happen to those environmental activists and government regulators who used junk science to have DDT banned in the first place?
2007
DDT Did Not Harm Eagles.March 1, 2007
In 1941, before any DDT was used, 197 bald eagles were counted. In 1960, after 15 years of heavy DDT use, the count had risen to 891.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not ...
The Rise, Fall, Rise, and Imminent Fall of DDT Nov 5, 2007
DDT was first used by the Allies during World War II to control lice-borne typhus. Typhus had always been a problem during wars, especially in ...
What Is the Real Scientific Consensus on Pesticides?. December 1, 2007
Most of the false alarms come from one or more of five interest groups that have learned how to profit from anti-pesticide alarmism.
2008
Greenpeace: A Long History of Poor Judgment. March 1, 2008
Greenpeace Internationals' Cool Farming report is just the latest in a long line of claims by the organization that have proven unwise and incorrect. In the 1970s, Greenpeace took the lead in condemning DDT — after the chemical had been used successfully to rid North America and Europe of malaria, which had been endemic throughout both continents. Greenpeace claimed DDT caused cancer in humans, which has since been proven untrue. It said DDT caused thinning in the eggshells of raptors, which isn't true either. American bald eagles have resurged because the Congressional Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940 halted the shooting and poisoning of the birds. Greenpeace's opposition to DDT has contributed to at least 30 million deaths, most of them African children.
More Global Warming Nonsense. April 10, 2008
The concept of malaria as a "tropical" infection is nonsense. It is a disease of the poor. Alarmists in the richest countries peddle the notion that the increase in malaria in poor countries is due to global warming and that this will eventually cause malaria to spread to areas that were "previously malaria free." That's a misrepresentation of the facts and disingenuous when packaged with opposition to the cheapest and best insecticide to combat malaria — DDT.
Sacrifices to the Climate Gods | National Review Online May 29, 2008
National Review
- It is well-established that the ancient Mayan, Aztec, Incan, and Toltec
Our environmental protection practices have already caused the deaths of millions of people, mainly in poor African countries. By far the most humans — mostly women and children — have been sacrificed in the mistaken belief that the use of any amount of the pesticide DDT would harm the environment. As a result, the preventable disease malaria has continued to decimate Africa.
An Invaluable Insecticide. June 13, 2008
[Scroll down] The Lubombo Project succeeded because of indoor house spraying with DDT and other insecticides and the distribution of the best new anti-malaria medicines. It was a triumph of everything that many on the political left want to despise: DDT, mining companies, and aid-rejecting Southern African nations. Only when the campaign was obviously successful did the UN-backed Global Fund and other agencies step in to support it. Yet now the history is being rewritten to remove any mention of DDT.
2009
Genocide in Green. March 25, 2009
[Scroll down] In World War II, U.S. troops used to lather up with DDT. Years ago, Dr. J. Gordon Edwards wrote: "[In 1944,] I was ordered to dust every soldier in our company with [DDT]. For two weeks I dusted the insecticide on soldiers and civilians, breathing the fog of white dust for several hours each day. The body lice were killed, and the DDT persisted long enough to kill young lice when they emerged from the eggs... Fortunately, no human beings have ever been harmed by DDT."
Eco-Oppression. Apr 23, 2009
Environmentalists in the West congratulate themselves for nearly ridding the Earth of DDT, but the people of South America, Asia and Africa are not celebrating. They need DDT to ward off malaria, a mosquito-borne infection that thrives in tropical climates and is often lethal. Thanks to Westerners' fear of all things inorganic — and Rachel Carson's scare-mongering book "Silent Spring" — one million inhabitants of third-world countries die of malaria every year.
The environmentalists' epidemic. - April 26, 2009
The Washington Times
World Malaria Day was observed yesterday, and finally real progress is being made on eradicating this killer disease — no thanks to environmentalists. Exaggerated fears about the pesticide DDT spread by Rachel Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," prevented this solution from being used for many years. For decades, a million or more people died from malaria annually in Africa, with children accounting for 80 percent to 90 percent of those deaths. ... In this era of climate-change scaremongering, this is a cautionary tale about acquiescing to the extreme measures environmentalists insist are necessary. Green ideas can kill people.
Liberty and Tyranny II. May 07, 2009
Those of us who lived in the 1970s recall the establishment of the EPA during the first year of that decade. Needing something to justify it existence, the EPA banned DDT in 1972. ... With each passing year it is becoming more and more obvious that the ban on DDT has killed millions of children — especially in Africa — by crippling our ability to fight malaria.
The UN bows to the anti-insecticide lobby and people die May 23, 2009
Free Republic
- Earlier this month, the U.N. agency quietly reverted to promoting less effective ...
In 2006, after 25 years and 50 million preventable deaths, the World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed widespread use of the insecticide DDT to combat malaria. So much for that. Earlier this month, the U.N. agency quietly reverted to promoting less effective methods for attacking the disease. The result is a victory for politics over public health, and millions of the world's poor will suffer as a result. The U.N. now plans to advocate for drastic reductions in the use of DDT, which kills or repels the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
He doesn't mince his words: Rachel Carson – poster girl of the international eco movement – was a "mass murderer" to rival Stalin and Pol Pot.
Wheat, Yes, Wheat! August 26, 2009
By Alan Caruba
Dr. David Bragg, Ph.D., an extension entomologist, recently enumerated the insect pests that can be depended upon to attack wheat. They include the Russian Wheat Aphid, the Ladybird Beetle, the English Grain Aphid and Rosy Grass Aphid. Then there's the Haanchen Barley Mealybug and Wireworm Beetle Larvae, as well as the False Wireworm, the Cereal Leaf Beetle, Cutworms and Armyworms. By no means should we leave out the Wheat Stem Maggot, the Wheat Stem Saw Fly, and the Wheat Joint Worm. I want you to think about this army of insect predators the next time some environmental group is demanding that all pesticides be banned and that all grains and vegetables be grown "organically."
Center for Inquiry - 16 posts - 11 authors
Are any of you folks out there familiar with the DDT story. ..... in thin eggshells which resulted in the decimation of the Brown Pelican populations ...
Is the EPA to blame for the bed bug 'epidemic'? 08/30/2010
Eradication [of bed bugs] can take months and cost thousands of dollars. There's also the stigma -- many high-end New York residences, for instance, keep their bed bug infestations secret to avoid embarrassment. But why are bed bugs back? Though they've been sucking humans' blood since at least ancient Greece, bed bugs became virtually extinct in America following the invention of pesticide DDT. There were almost no bed bugs in the United States between World War II and the mid-1990s.
US Grapples With Bedbugs as EPA Limits Options. Aug. 30, 2010
A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.
The Politics of Bedbugs Conservatives say that the ban on DDT is to blame for the recent resurgence in bedbugs.
The Slow Death of the Environmental Movement. October 18, 2010
By Alan Caruba
Today there are so many environmental organizations and groups that you need a directory to sort them out. These groups, however, are now far more political than their original intent. They are ministries of misinformation, disinformation, and outright scare mongering. The movement as we know it today got a boost with the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring." It was an anti-pesticide diatribe whose claims have long since been disproved, but it set in motion a tsunami of fears regarding all chemicals and, beyond that, concerns about all kinds of manufacturing and technology; indeed anything involving energy resources. Within eight years of the book's publication President Nixon initiated the Environmental Protection Agency that has since metatisized into a rogue government agency intent on controlling all aspects of life in America.
The EPA: 40 and past its prime. 11 December 2010
Henry Miller theguardian.com, [Lisa] Jackson lauds the EPA's protecting the public from chemical pesticides. In fact, this is one of the agency's bêtes noirs. The testing required is excessively burdensome and the tolerances permitted by regulators overly conservative (low). What makes regulators' approach to chemical pesticides verge on the absurd is the fact that 99.99% of consumers' exposure to pesticides comes not from agricultural applications, but from substances that are naturally found in food.
2011
Outwitting Lethal Government Policies. January 30, 2011
[Scroll down] If you live on the Texas border, or in fact anywhere in the Southwest, pay close attention to epidemics breaking out across the line. As of 2010, we may add southern Florida to this list. In July 2010, the Centers for Disease Control released the results of a study showing that up to 20% of the inhabitants of the Keys had been exposed to Dengue Fever, also known as "bonebreak fever" for the pain it causes. Dengue is returning to endemic status in Texas after being banished by DDT.
DDT and Malaria Prevention: Addressing the Paradox › v.119(6); Jun 2011
by H Bouwman received March 4, 2010; Accepted January 18, 2011.
Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter. February 19, 2011
Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects — hair loss, vomiting, intense joint pain, liver damage and fetal defects, to name just a few. But ... the drugs' benefits vastly outweigh their risks. They save lives. We need to use chemo drugs carefully, but we need to use them. The same commonsense reasoning should apply to the Third World equivalent of chemotherapy drugs: DDT and other insecticides to combat malaria. Up to half a billion people are infected annually by this vicious disease, nearly a million die, countless survivors are left with permanent brain damage, and 90% of this carnage is in sub-Saharan Africa, the most impoverished region on Earth.
Don't Rush to Ban Chemicals. March 2, 2011
Consider the case of California almonds. A natural chemical, aflatoxin, is found in 15 percent of this crop and on other nuts as well. If the aflatoxin is not eliminated before the nuts are consumed, people could die; and the most effective way to eliminate aflatoxin in nuts is with pesticides — triazines, such as simazine and atrazine, which have been found safe at levels up to 1,000 times what humans are exposed to when they're used on nuts. But many environmental campaigners, citing controversial studies on frogs, lobby for a ban of triazines.
Earth Day and Environmental Insanity: April 18, 2011
Anyone who has been paying any attention to the environmental movement has got to have concluded it is insane. ... In America, there has been a resurgence of bed bugs, formerly controlled by DDT. The EPA recently awarded $550,000 in grants to the University of Missouri, Texas A&M University, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Rutgers University, and the Michigan Department of Community Health, for bed bug "education, outreach, and environmental justice departments." So, instead of authorizing the use of a pesticide to rid us all of bed bugs, it wants to "educate" us to live with them. That's insane.
Racism, Injustice, and the Left. June 19, 2011
Every 45 seconds in Africa, a child dies from malaria, yet we continue to ban DDT, the single most effective weapon against the cause of the disease, because we worry about its effect on birds. You would think the needless death of 700,000 black children every year, because of rabid environmentalism, would make the papers, but it doesn't.
A Nutshell History of Climate-Change Hysteria. June 30, 2011
Up until at least the mid-1970s, the frenzy to rescue the planet from industrial chemicals, especially pesticides like DDT, was fueled by Rachel Carson's alluring book Silent Spring. This work, published in 1962, sparked the modern environmental movement, providing activists with both a laudable goal (cleaning up the planet) and reprehensible ones (portraying industry and modern society as enemies). Silent Spring made it rather obvious to some that the modern industrial society needed to be disarmed of its "weapons" (synthetic chemicals). Regardless of the fact that it is the careless practices of industry and the wasteful excesses of society that should have been precisely targeted, not modernity per se, the battle to save the planet was on.
The Greens Just Love Us to Death. July 10, 2011
By Alan Caruba
You may recall [the environmentalists] got off to a strong start when the Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970. Its first act was to ban DDT and the result of that has been the needless death of millions who could and should have been protected against malaria. The nation these days is experiencing a bed bug population explosion that could be stopped in six months if the EPA would only authorize a pesticide to kill the critters. They won't.
Bedbugged! Bring back DDT! (Not!) What will, and won't, kill the critters Aug 18, 2011
As bed bugs have encroached, and people cast about ever more desperately for ways to eradicate them, the cry of “Bring back DDT!” has risen.
NYT Article Admits DDT Ban as a Cause of Bedbug Outbreak. August 25, 2010 |
Unfortunately for residents of many urban areas such as New York and Philadelphia, the bedbugs are not only biting but spreading at an alarming rate. Despite this outbreak, the mainstream media has until recently kept insisting that bedbugs developed a resistance to DDT so any emergency lifting of the EPA ban on that pesticide is unnecessary.
by R Tren
How the EPA Is Like DDT. November 11, 2011
Though synthesized in 1874, the insecticidal properties of DDT were not discovered until 1939, the outbreak of WWII in Europe. DDT was a boon to humanity when first used to kill vectors that spread human diseases. GIs welcomed "showers" of DDT to rid themselves of lice and other insects. When prisoner of war and concentration camps were liberated, the freed inmates were doused with DDT. By the early 1950s, British colonial doctors were using DDT to control the scourge of the tropics, malaria, as well as other insect-borne diseases, by spraying the inside of huts with this persistent chemical about once every six months. Malaria rates plummeted. It was an inexpensive way to control a disease that killed millions and left many of the survivors partially disabled whenever they suffered outbreaks.
EPA is Binge Gambling with US Economy. January 17, 2012
Since DDT was used in WWII to successfully control typhus and malaria, it has gone from winner to loser and back to winner again. In 1948, Dr. Paul Muller, the scientist who discovered the insecticidal properties of DDT, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. The tables turned when Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962 and referenced experiments done that claimed DDT thinned birds' eggshells. Ultimately, through the work of EDF, DDT was banned in 1972. Because of that decision, malaria has spread, and millions have died from it. Instead of eliminating the disease's vector, the mosquito, drugs have been developed to treat the disease, and those drugs are now proving ineffective, as malaria has grown resistant to them. Since then, additional studies have been done and the eggshell findings have been revisited. DDT wasn't the problem it was once believed to be.
We’d congratulate the Audubon Society for understanding that Peter Gleick’s committed fraud, but we still have a bad taste in our mouth from all people Audubon helped kill via the DDT ban. Continue reading →
Killing our babies. March 1, 2012
Finally, the World Health Organization and Uganda's Health Ministry are again emphasizing DDT and other insecticides to control a disease that kills 110,000 Ugandans every year. But instead of applauding the decision, anti-pesticide activists are attacking it with scare stories and lies.
Green is Taking Us for a Ride. Mar 26, 2012
While malaria is no longer a concern for America, such is not the case for developing countries. Since DDT was banned in 1972, malaria has become Africa's largest killer — billions have been stricken by malaria and tens of millions have died. The science that caused DDT to be banned is spotty at best, the decision to ban DDT was admittedly political, and many who originally opposed DDT now acknowledge that it is the most powerful, long-lasting mosquito repellant ever invented and has been proven to virtually eliminate malaria — yet environmental groups still oppose its use.
Earth Day co-founder written out of history. April 20, 2012
Earth Day co-founder written out of history after composting his girlfriend
[Scroll down] DDT was banned for agricultural use in the United States in 1972, and its use was greatly reduced worldwide
after the publication of Rachel Carson's 1962 scare book, "Silent Spring,"which warned of DDT and other chemicals in food and water.
It's nice that bald eagles are making a comeback, but on the list of things ravaged, add millions of people dead of malaria in the
Third World since DDT was banned for agricultural use. In 2010, more than 600,000 people, mostly children, died in Africa of malaria,
according to the World Health Organization.
It was a mistake to ban DDT in 1972 May 9, 2012
by Steve Milloy | 4 Comments
“The overuse should have been limited, but the ban that led to millions of human deaths should not be a source of pride.” Continue reading →
It was a mistake to ban DDT in 1972 It always amazes me that ... EPA un-scrubs data base of experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust ...
Malaria surge feared: WHO releases action plan to tackle the spread of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes May 16, 2012
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Waging a losing war against mosquitoes. July 1, 2012
[Scroll down] The CDC has respect for mosquitoes, too. The agency was created in 1946 to fight malaria, and while malaria's been all but wiped out in the U.S., there were more than 700 reported cases of the deadly West Nile virus here last year alone.
Carson's proselytizing and advocacy raised substantial anxiety about DDT and led to bans in most of the world and to restrictions on other ...
DDT still works on malarial mosquitos, for which we should all be grateful. However, bed bugs are a totally different insect in both structure ...
We have discovered many preventives against tropical diseases, and often against the onslaught of insects of all kinds, from lice to mosquitoes and back again. The excellent DDT powder which had been fully experimented with and found to yield astonishing results will henceforth be used on a great scale by the British forces in Burma and by the American and Australian forces in the Pacific and India in all theatres.
—Winston Churchill, September 24, 1944[1]
My own doubts came when DDT was introduced for civilian use. In Guyana, within two years it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time the birth rate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population problem.
—Alexander King, cofounder of the Club of Rome, 1990[2]
Dying to be politically correct. October 2, 2012
Each year, the U.S. government spends $200 million to help prevent malaria in the rest of the world, primarily in Africa and Asia. That's mighty nice of us. But none of the money goes for the inside residential spraying of DDT that allowed Americans to get a handle on the spread of the disease. This summer President Bush announced a new five-year $1.2 billion effort to prevent malaria abroad. But, again, no money for DDT.
2013
Marilyn: I'm writing about your answer to the question about bedbugs. You wrote, "After World War II, insecticides such as DDT virtually ...
And the most bedbug-infested U.S. city is ... January 16, 2013 |
By Eric Berger
The exact cause is not known, but experts associate the resurgence with increased resistance of bed bugs to available pesticides, greater international and domestic travel, lack of knowledge regarding control of bed bugs due to their prolonged absence, and the continuing decline or elimination of effective pest control programs at state and local public health agencies.
More about the history of DDT: Jan 19, 2013
In 1972, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus banned the use of DDT on the scientifically unsupported claim that it may cause cancer in humans. By then, malaria was no longer a health issue in the US. Using this claim, certain US government agencies and environmental nongovernment organizations (NGOs) demanded the banning of all use of DDT in other countries, including indoor spraying, as a condition for receiving US governmental aid. In countries that did so, malaria rates soared, millions died, and hundreds of millions suffered from preventable malaria.
War On Poverty As Senseless As War On Drugs. January 29, 2013
Thanks to the ban on DDT, malaria has resurfaced and millions of Africans have died. Within two years of restarting DDT programs, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Madagascar, and Swaziland slashed their malaria rates by 75% or more. Other countries want to launch similar programs, but they are facing opposition from Europe. The E.U. is warning of possible agricultural export sanctions against Uganda, Kenya, and other countries that use DDT to save lives. Now why on earth would the E.U. object to this life-saving measure for the African nations who rely greatly on their exports to Europe?
Mosquito repellent Deet 'losing its effectiveness'. 21 Feb 2013
The mosquito repellent Deet, which is widely used by holidaymakers and residents in warm climates, is losing its effectiveness, scientists say.
The Editor says...
Nobody makes such claims about DDT. DDT kills mosquitoes, while Deet just diverts them to someone else.
Environmentalism and Human Sacrifice. Feb 26, 2013
[There are] people who are more devoted to nature than to human life. And who might such people be? They are called environmentalists. These are the people who coerced nations worldwide into banning DDT. It is generally estimated this ban has led to the deaths of about 50 million human beings, overwhelmingly African children, from malaria. DDT kills the mosquito that spreads malaria to human beings. US News and World Report writer Carrie Lukas reported in 2010, "Fortunately, in September 2006, the World Health Organization announced a change in policy: It now recommends DDT for indoor use to fight malaria.
Bald Eagle Fact Sheet - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mar 18, 2013
Shortly after World War II, DDT was hailed as a new pesticide to control ... The chemical interfered with the ability of the birds to produce strong eggshells. As a result, their eggs had shells so thin that they often broke during ...
India opposes 2020 deadline for DDT ban | Down To Earth May 4, 2013
The proposal to commit to a deadline on a worldwide ban on pesticide DDT by 2020 was rejected at the sixth Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the Stockholm Convention ...
DDT Ban Breeds Death 06 June 2013
Malaria Cases in U.S. Hit 40-Year High | CDC Features Oct 31, 2013
DDT is a pesticide discovered in 1939 by Paul Müller, a lifesaving scientist with a page on our site. It was widely used in ....
Going green means having green to spend. December 25, 2013
The dirty secret of the environmental movement is how indifferent it can be to the poor. Consider the widespread ban on DDT. As environmental groups celebrated the recovery of bald eagles, parents in poor countries buried 20 million children who died from the ensuing malaria outbreak.
2014
: "When U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief William Ruckelshaus was about to announce his decision to ban DDT in June 1972, he confided to a friend, "There is no scientific basis for banning this chemical --- this is a political decision."" The 'friend' was never identified however. In a commentary the magazine concluded (page 56): "The EPA and environmentalists must be held accountable for their crime: There was not a single human death from DDT usage; there have been untold thousands of deaths and millions of disease-stricken persons as a result of the DDT banning."
2015
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance, or by skin contact. If you are exposed to DDT, DDE, and DDD, many ...
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