Befor we dismiss this out of hand, remember there was a time we saw no harm in lead based paints, esbestos, or ddt.
I agree a GREAT deal of the problem is lack of parents’ ‘hands-on’ rearing of the children. But if you spend any time around these kids, you’ll soon believe there’s something more.
The new findings are based on one-time urine samples in 1,139 children and interviews with their parents to determine which children had ADHD.
The study dealt with one common type of pesticide called organophosphates. Levels of six pesticide compounds were measured. For the most frequent compound detected, 20 percent of the children with above-average levels had ADHD. In children with no detectable amount in their urine, 10 percent had ADHD.
Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, "Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing."
[Desowitz, RS. 1992. Malaria Capers, W.W. Norton & Company]
There’s an article that Malcolm Gladwell did for the New Yorker a couple of years ago that basically showed that the DDT scare was a complete lie. He points out that the inventor of DDT regularly ate chunks of it and fed it to his kids to prove its safety. And Gladwell is no conservative.
Asbestosis is an invention of trial lawyers. You’d literally have to work in an asbestos mine for 30 years to get it, and even then you might well be symptom-free. Remediation in homes and businesses is a make-work industry meant to soak uneducated people.
Who? ADHD kids? I’ve met about 10,000 kids diagnosed with ADHD. Every single one of them have parents with extremely bad parenting philosophies or no parenting philosophies.