Junk Science Week: The pesticide report everyone ignored [The pesticide report that nobody read]

Financial Post vua National Post ^ | 2008-06-16 | Terence Corcoran

[Clive]

See also this article in the same edition:

The lawn is safe

[Clive]

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[xcamel]

Like DDT - except for the little problem of 8 million dead from malaria...

[dmcnash]

If it does not kill you, it will make you stronger.
There is a biological name for this observation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis

[Barnacle]

I love the smell of 2,4,D in the morning.

[Balding_Eagle]

I love the smell of 2,4,D in the morning.

I do too. If it's a good hot day, the weeds are dead by evening.

[onedoug]

The pesticide report that nobody read

Jobs Americans won't do.

Cool pic. After Duvall, that film went downhill, fast.

[VOA]

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[Hacklehead]

One day they will admit the same thing about PCBs.

[RJL]

It’s easy to generate a junk science scare. You make stuff up, exaggerate the risks, politicize the subject and spin it into a corporate and ideological battle. And, above all, you ignore the facts.

Global Warming fits that bill.

[alecqss]

Junk science has two advantages over the real one - 1) big and, most importantly, easy money and 2) mass hysteria, ever so pleasing to the “scientists” du jour.

[Barnacle]

After Duvall, that film went downhill, fast.

Each time I see it, I like it more.

Duvall sure has had a great career. Have you seen Second Hand Lions?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Well that’s OK, gets rid of overpopulation.

[Pontiac]

Dr. Arya trotted out the same old arguments his group has been using for years. He began with the usual catch-all scaremonger cop-out, accusing Health Canada of saying that a hazardous substance was safe. “Science cannot say 2,4-D, or any other toxic chemical designed to kill a biological organism, is safe.”

Using that logic we can use no pesticide, no herbicide, no fungicide, no anti-biotic and no rat poison.

That takes us back to the dark ages and the days of the great plagues.

The days when famines were a common scourge of humanity. When fully a third or more of every years crop was eaten by insects.

Maybe these purveyors of panic like the idea of going hungry on a daily basis but I do not.

If these eviro-crazies want to freeze in the dark and sleep in a swarm of mosquitoes with a rat chewing on their toes they can feel free, but leave me and the rest of modern man alone with our chemicals.

[tiki]

Maybe these purveyors of panic like the idea of going hungry on a daily basis

NO, no, no, you don’t get it, they like the idea of YOU going hungry. They are the only ones who care about the Earth and they deserve to live.

[Pontiac]

they like the idea of YOU going hungry. They are the only ones who care about the Earth and they deserve to live.

Your probably right about that.

But insect bourn diseases don’t play favorites. The plagues of the middle ages were not players of favorites. The plagues killed rich and poor, king and commoner alike.

These people are fools.

They play with fire and will burn the whole world down if too many people listen to them.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Science cannot say 2,4-D, or any other toxic chemical designed to kill a biological organism, is safe.”

Even dihydrous oxide (AKA dihydrogen monoxide, or hydroxl acid) is toxic if used improperly. Actually, it kills several hundred thousands of people world wide every year. And yet, no national health organization has banned it!

[tiki]

They are playing with fire, but they are too stupid to know.

[TASMANIANRED]

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[TheMole]

Great story. I once had a seasonal job at a fertilizer plant where one of my duties was adding a liquid called Killex (active ingredient 2,4-D) to bags of weed killer. Yes, really. It was almost 30 years ago, and no I haven’t got cancer or anything similar.