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Rachel Carson killed millions of people world wide with her villifying of a safe insecticide....DDT quote from Dr Michael Crichton: So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn.

I like Crichton because he isn't afraid to speak his mind, even when he is in the "minority." He is a scientist not looking for a consensus, but the truth.

I'm not arguing with the truth concerning DDT. It single-handedly wiped out several plagues that were about to begin after WWII, as well as the malaria-carrying mosquito. However, many scientists were very concerned that insects were becoming resistant to DDT.

The fact that it hasn't been used in the USA may help us one day in the event of a national emergency. That is, if the environmentalists can be silenced and the politicos have the balls to re-introduce the stuff.

What did she lie about, how did she cause death of children?

Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring"

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