> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 09:30:16 -0600, AGWFacts <
AGWF...@1800reality.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 20 May 2012 17:05:16 -0000,
ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 20 May 2012 10:18:06 -0600, AGWFacts <
AGWF...@1800reality.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:26:28 -0500, Sam Wormley
> > > > > <
swor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On 5/16/12 1:18 PM,
ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > If anything is a threat to humanity, it is scare mongering ass hats
> > > > > > > like swormley1 and Rachel Carson, thanks to whom millions of people
> > > > > > > have died and continue to die from malaria.
> > > > >
> > > > > Only a batshit crazy net.k00k would believe that assertion.
> > > > >
> > > > > Nobody died because Dr. Carson discovered the dangers of DDT. Note
> > > > > also that DDT ceased being effective before the world banned the
> > > > > use of DDT; Malathion replaced DDT before the ban.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Interesting perspective jimp has on Rachel Carson.
> > > > > >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American
> > > > > > marine biologist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are
> > > > > > credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson#Criticisms_of_environmentalism_and_DDT_restrictions
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Eagle#Population_decline_and_recovery
> > >
> > > > Millions have in fact died due to the lack of a cheap, effective, readily
> > > > available insecticide,
> > >
> > > Nobody here claimed otherwise, Shit-for-brains. The subject is the
> > > ban on DDT: there is no evidence that shows the ban on DDT had any
> > > adverse effect on human health.
> > >
> > > > i.e. DDT, the "dangers" of DDT were vastly overstated
> > >
> > > And you "know" that how, exactly?
> > >
> > > > and in some cases flat wrong,
> > >
> > > And you "know" that how, exactly?
> > >
> > > > DDT did not cease to be effective,
> > >
> > > Yes, it did, Shit-for-brains.
> > >
> > >
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2006/WHO_HTM_MAL_2006.1112_eng.pdf
> > >
> > >
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1077266
> > >
> > > DDT was used so much in agriculture, that in several regions of
> > > the world DDT ceased being effective because disease vectors
> > > evolved resistance to DDT.
> > >
> > > > and
> > > > Malathion did not replace DDT for mosquito control where the people are dieing.
> > >
> > > Yes, it did, Shit-for-brains.
> > >
> > >
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/curtiscf.htm
> > >
> > > > Just because you lie and say such things does not make the so.
> > >
> > > Read that sentence to yourself over and over and over again.
> > No cheap, effective, readily available insecticide, i.e. DDT, means
> > people die needlessly from malaria.
> Not this myth again.
>
> 1. [DDT] was not banned world-wide -- the EPA doesn't have that
> power.
Exactly. DDT is not even banned in the USA. DDT use is restricted
in the USA, and for damn good reasons.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240541/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2127062/pdf/9240045.pdf
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/84/10/764.full.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2022666/
http://www.kean.edu/~jfasick/docs/Spring_09_SeniorSem_Sect02/Stephanie%20Long%20Presentation%20Dees%20et%20al%201997.pdf
"Women exposed to relatively high levels of DDT prior to
mid-adolescence are 5 times more likely to develop breast cancer
later in life than women with lower exposures. But exposure after
adolescence does not increase risk."
This is one of the reasons why DDT has not been banned, but has
been restricted. The fact is that there are other pesticides that
do not cause cancer.
> 2. Mosquitoes were already becoming DDT-resistant where DDT was being
> widely used.
Yes.
> 3. DDT causes genetic damage, urogenital damage, and other problems.
Yes, and chiefly in the areas of reproduction.
> > Yeah, I know, most of the dead are brown and black so they don't matter
> > to you.
> Yeah, you right-wingers care so much about minorities.