From: matus (matus@matus1976.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 11:03:27 MDT
Anders said:
> [ Inspired by the mosquitos of New Haven and Kalix :-) ]
>
> What to do about mosquitos? Besides being terribly
> irritating, in many
> places they transmit dangerous diseases.
>
These flying self replicating used needles may very well be the
harbringers of whatever disease does the human race in. The solution is
simple, bring back DDT. To talk about the consequences of ideas, and
the morally culpability for being believed, Rachel Carson is the
greatest mass murderer to have ever existed. If extropians want to do
something extropian, save lives, and right scientific wrongs, DDT is the
best place to start.
Michael Dickey
From - http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
"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.
The lies and hysteria spread to defend the DDT ban are typical of the
irrationalist, anti-science wave which has virtually destroyed rational
forms of discourse in our society. If you want to save science-and human
lives-the fight to bring back DDT..."
"Sixty million people have died needlessly of malaria, since the
imposition of the 1972 ban on DDT, and hundreds of millions more have
suffered from this debilitating disease. The majority of those affected
are children. Of the 300 to 500 million new cases of malaria each year,
200 to 300 million are children, and malaria now kills one child every
30 seconds. Ninety percent of the reported cases of malaria are in
Africa, and 40 percent of the world's population, inhabitants of
tropical countries, are threatened by the increasing incidence of
malaria."
"As King correctly observed, the incidence of malaria, and its death
rates, were vastly reduced by DDT spraying. To take one example: Sri
Lanka (Ceylon) had 2.8 million cases of malaria and more than 12,500
deaths in 1946, before the use of DDT. In 1963, after a large-scale
spraying campaign, the number of cases fell to 17, and the number of
deaths fell to 1. But five years after the stop of spraying, in 1969,
the number of deaths had climbed to 113, and the number of cases to
500,000. Today, malaria rates have soared in countries that stopped
spraying. In South Africa, the malaria incidence increased by 1,000
percent in the late 1990s"
"The Silent Spring Fraud
The campaign to ban DDT got its start with the publication of Rachel
Carson's book Silent Spring in 1962. Carson's popular book was a fraud.
She played on people's emotions, and to do so, she selected and
falsified data from scientific studies, as entomologist Dr. J. Gordon
Edwards has documented in his analysis of the original scientific
studies that Carson cited.2
As a result of the propaganda and lies, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency convened scientific hearings and appointed a Hearing
Examiner, Edmund Sweeney, to run them. Every major scientific
organization in the world supported DDT use, submitted testimony, as did
the environmentalist opposition. The hearings went on for seven months,
and generated 9,000 pages of testimony. Hearing Examiner Sweeney then
ruled that DDT should not be banned, based on the scientific evidence:
"DDT is not carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic to man [and] these
uses of DDT do not have a deleterious effect on fish, birds, wildlife,
or estuarine organisms," Sweeney concluded.
Two months later, without even reading the testimony or attending the
hearings, EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus overruled the EPA
hearing officer and banned DDT. He later admitted that he made the
decision for "political" reasons. "Science, along with economics, has a
role to play . .. .. [but] the ultimate decision remains political,"
Ruckelshaus said." .
Etc etc
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