Awesome article!!!
Fantastic that they bring this up!!!
The DDT scare, based on a fictitious book “Silent Spring” and playing into rumors and fears that were unfounded and unscientific, cost thousands of people their lives.
Even there the MSM aided in the spread of a lie (because it sounded good and was populist) and then didn’t report on the consequences in places like Sri Lanka.
You had actual subject matter experts eating teaspoons of raw 99% pure DDT in front of Congress trying to stop the madness, but once the train leaves the station and picks up steam, it’s hard to stop something so massive.
DDT was the first fake environmentalist/public safety story that became politicized.
DDT I believe was one of the first things the newly created EPA (an agency looking to justify its existence and exploited by corporate America) regulated.
Today this is rather the norm than the exception, and the stupidity has spread to diseases, i.e. Zika, West Nile, SARS, bird/swine flu were the opening shots before Covid. It only took the right timing (i.e. an election year).
Of course there too politicians are “following the science.” That’s why we closed public pools and beaches, because we all know salt water, UV light, fresh uncirculated air, sand, and the heat is where a virus likes to hang out! Yes sir, Chorine in the water and air so strong it bleaches your hair and cloths, burns your nostrils, that’s where you need to be worried! And the mask? Oh yeah, that’s real science right there... because the average person changes them out every 10 minutes when they become damp, right? Because most folks don’t reuse masks over multiple days... I bet most of those masks were a frigging bio hazard, growing crap in them. What exactly did they accomplish by closing all the restaurants, making old folk homes take back positive patients, NY saying they need 200,000 ventilators... science, science, science. Don’t argue, it’s all factual and science!
Glad they bring up DDT, it was the first of it’s kind - complete BS.
Junk science rules.
This sleazy rag posing as a scientific journal knows no bounds, these days, as it promotes revisionist propaganda...
B.S. Everything in Rachel Carson’s book was proven to be a lie. William Ruckelshaus was a radical environmentalist who banned DDT despite the scientific evidence and thereby murdered millions of people who have died from malaria.
Not buying it.