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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Thanks for your post and I'm glad you got your computer going for you. I've love 'Dr.' Crichton since Andromeda Strain came. I finally ordered his anti-environmentalist novel last weekend. I'd forgotten he'd declined to take his boards and why. The great safety of DDT, at least to people, and its past efficacy against bed bugs were well known. What I don't know is whether the reports I've read elsewhere claiming bed bugs have developed resistance to DDT since the EPA ban are true. I want DDT back, at least for proper anti-malaria use (spray insides of houses annually) but am not sure it still is the magic bullet for the current bed bug problems. I LOVED your link to CNN's problems and their link to bootleg DDT in 1945.

Nixon's EPA was one of the many domestic problems I'd expected him to cause when I was supporting Reagan's '68 campaign. Alas foolish adults could vote and wise ten year olds couldn't that year. Today many folks want to turn the clock back to before Obama or perhaps Bush. I'd aim for pre-JFK/LBJ. My parents would love pre-FDR. I'm afraid Beck may be correct in aiming for pre-McKinley/TR/WW era.

49 posted on 08/24/2011 12:18:27 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

“What I don’t know is whether the reports I’ve read elsewhere claiming bed bugs have developed resistance to DDT since the EPA ban are true.”

I agree with you. I never did answer that specific question. We just need a challenge to spray a small apartment full of bedbugs with DDT and see what the results are the next day. That would be the end of the argument one way or the other.

I find it not so strange this has not happened.

There is another great article Michael wrote several years ago. That one article covered a series of great interesting topics. I need to go back, find it, and re-educate myself. One thing he said, among other topics, was making Yellowstone Park into a national park was/has been a disaster for wild life. I was shocked and still am. Only Michael could have come up with the truth.

Thank you.


50 posted on 08/24/2011 1:18:32 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

P.S. …again.

“What I don’t know is whether the reports I’ve read elsewhere claiming bed bugs have developed resistance to DDT since the EPA ban are true.”

Last night I awoke in the middle of the night thinking: How stupid have I been?”

The answer has been right in front of my face which I couldn’t see. I couldn’t see the forest for the trees type thing.

Think “timeline” of this whole thing.

DDT was banned BEFORE the excuse bedbugs had developed a resistance against DDT.

Just my own thoughts.


52 posted on 08/25/2011 8:30:00 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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