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To: nickcarraway

I’d reckon wind farms are far more dangerous than DDT. Since the settled science turned out to be false.

http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/05/22/we-are-the-idiots-n1601340#!

http://westernfarmpress.com/management/why-rachel-carson-was-wrong

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html


3 posted on 10/20/2015 4:18:31 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Good point!


4 posted on 10/20/2015 4:19:37 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

This link of yours doesn’t explain why egg shells of birds of prey thinned... in fact it doesn’t even explain why Rachel Carson was wrong, which is disappointing since the title implied it would:

http://westernfarmpress.com/management/why-rachel-carson-was-wrong


9 posted on 10/20/2015 5:08:01 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

The problem today is that we allow money and politics to usurp facts and reality. The media and lobbyists all have an agenda backed up by their big money cousins. They would have turned Jesus Christ into a pariah through the use of propaganda if his destruction would have given them power and made them money.

Facts today are what the consolidated corporate media and lobbyists use to twist politicians on both sides of the aisle to agree with their beliefs. I don’t trust anyone and I’m cynical of all..


10 posted on 10/20/2015 5:14:29 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as a news media exposing political corruption)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

Now this one you posted is a much better article than the other:

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html

But unfortunately it also does not address the eggshell thinning issue. We all know Rachel Carson was a nut who caused untold harm with her paranoia about DDT actually killing things and total failure to acknowledge that for many species it was a boon not a bust. But ...I’m more interested in the cause of eggshell thinning because I haven’t heard any other theories about it.


11 posted on 10/20/2015 5:26:26 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy

And the first link , that of Walter Williams, while it does sort of vaguely address DDT in raptors, doesn’t actually refute the effect of DDT on raptor egg shells, it merely does as the other articles do, go after Rachel Carson for her hyperbole and the damage that the total ban on the pesticide has done.

Near as I can tell the theory [which is not Rachel Carson’s theory] that DDT causes thinning of raptor eggshells still stands.


12 posted on 10/20/2015 5:41:21 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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