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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did Carson actually advocate banning DDT? I thought that was from her overzealous followers?


18 posted on 01/20/2011 2:10:20 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges
Did Carson actually advocate banning DDT? I thought that was from her overzealous followers?

No more than Ralph Nader was responsible for GM dropping the Corvair.

23 posted on 01/20/2011 2:20:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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Perhaps - but it was her stupid book based on faulty research. I think it is estimated that 1 million people, mainly children, die of Malaria each year.

“See - if they used DDT the earth would be even MORE overpopulated.”


25 posted on 01/20/2011 2:21:42 PM PST by 21twelve ( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
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