WOW - are they nuts, about many of their listings of chemical products.
DDT, as some above have mentioned, was and is spectacularly effective and useful.
CFCs (Freon, etc.) are incredibly efficient and important agents and more and more it appears they have little to do with ozone depletion. We have gone from refrigerators that lasted 40 years to refrigerators with a lifetime of less than five years as a result of that ban. The loss of their efficiency has meant loss of refrigeration in the Third World for vast numbers of people. There is still no good delivery agent other than CFCs for certain drugs.
I know people have made a great case for Agent Orange, but I am not able to do so off the top of my head.
There is really no good substitute still for Asbestos, and eliminating that from the World Trade Center towers may well have been the cause that the steel in those columns lost integrity so quickly.
Red Dye #2 - I willingly will not defend.
I don’t have major argument with any of their others, though I would love a Segway, enjoyed Pinto, love to use plastic bags, and understand pay toilets.
As far as the chemicals above, though, I believe that they will re-emerge in time of need since they are still very viable.
I know people have made a great case for Agent Orange, but I am not able to do so off the top of my head.
http://fumento.com/agent/
(Freeper science journalist)