EPA Pesticide Bans Threaten You and the Economy

canadafreepress.com ^ | 8/21/2014 | Alan Caruba

[rktman]

When Rachel Carson’s book, “Silent Spring”, was published, filled with totally false claims about DDT, the Environmental Protection Agency looked it over and concluded she had used manipulated data. They concluded that DDT should not be banned, but its first administrator, William Ruckleshaus, overruled the agency and imposed a ban.

Ruckleshaus was a lawyer, not a scientist. He was also politically connected enough to hold a variety of government positions. He got the nod for the EPA job from John Mitchell, Nixon’s Attorney General who later went to jail for his participation in the Watergate cover-up.

[rktman]

Weird huh? Still no evidence (except hearsay) that DDT is bad but it's still banned in the US. Is it still in use anywhere? I'm guessing that it works better than the mosquito net programs in place in various places around the world.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“In the words of Professor Robert H. White-Stevens, an agriculturist and biology professor at Rutgers University, ‘If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth.’”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/05/rachel-carsons-deadly-fantasies/

[rktman]

Ecowackos goals. The dark ages were just so much fun. NOT!

[wbarmy]

You misunderstand;

The peons would live in the dark ages, servicing the plantations of those beacons of intelligence and progressiveness who deserve there palatial estates and lighted houses because of the service they do all mankind by just existing. Even Marx had rich relatives supporting him while he toiled on his magnus opus.

[G Larry]

Malaria has killed MILLIONS since the DDT ban.

If you like support from an unlikely source, check the July 2007 issue of National Geographic.

It totally vindicates DDT.

The only problem noted was the saturation levels used in the U.S.
But there were no negative effects from third world use.

[rktman]

Yup. The dosage is the killer. DDT is okay but we see no movement to ban dihydrogen monoxide. It’s probably been the cause of more deaths than DDT. :>}

[The Great RJ]

Thanks to Obama’s EPA we will soon be not only shivering or sweltering in our darkened homes because we can’t afford our electric bills, but be starving because we can neither afford nor find food on the grocery shelves.