Posted on 08/06/2016 4:29:09 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
None of which is sufficient to support a total ban. Far more lives have been lost to malaria than ever were to DDT or any of its metabolites. DDT was banned because of its supposed ecological effects, not its medical effects on humans.
Correction, the insecticide properties of DDT began to be promoted in 1939. They were widely known well before that time.
Unless you are presently, have always been, and always will be in utterly perfect health and beat the actuarial tables, you cannot exclude the possibility of harm from DDT -- including harm to any offspring. And the larger point is that no matter your health, due to biological variability, what matters is not isolated individual cases but the cumulative scientific evidence, with much of it based on population based studies.
If DDT were demonstrably descended as rain from God there would be an outcry against rain. In fact a popular tune in Appalachia in the early 60’s was, “Ain’t no flies on Jesus ‘Cause He’s sprayed with DDT.”
There is no preponderance of scientific evidence demonstrating ill affects of DDT. There is substantial anecdotal statistical documentation that could as easily be attributed to God’s rain.
See post #55 above.
Yes! You are right! It is better to allow (or force) millions to die to prove a minor point which sets a “scientific standard” for mega deaths.
All those dead Africans just love being dead - rather than suffer from a cumulative harm proved by a population statistical study which, as everyone knows, cannot be manipulated to prove a point!
FUD - Long live DDT!
So, resting your case on deaths prevented, do you accept that DDT has adverse health and environmental consequences?
No and I do not care about the so-called environment you claim to protect by advocating death for some. Go away.
Take a look at the more than 12,000 abstracts and articles in PubMed that reference DDT. They are strongly negative and cumulatively make a potent scientific case against DDT, one that I researched originally because I was dissatisfied with the stale anecdotes and fact deficient reasoning of DDT advocates. As for post #55, a personal account and a guess of no harm does not trump the vast body of scientific evidence against the safety of DDT.
You sure seem to love DDT.
Yep DDT best thing since sliced bread ...
Simple question...Out of 10,000 children born to Zika infected moms, how many will be born with small brains?
I found the answer! In the USA, 2-12 per 10,000 BEFORE ZIKA!.
But wait! There is more!
https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/25/zika-microcephaly-what-is-risk/
***Microcephaly can be caused by a number of factors, including a variety of viral infections and ALCOHOL consumption during pregnancy. In the US, between two and 12 babies per 10,000 are born with the condition.***
http://www.pestproducts.com/permethrin-sfr.htm
Permethrin
But toxic to cats.
Fleas, ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, flies etc.
cats lives don’t matter
does not work on resistant critters.
The fogger trucks still run periodically in the evenings, at least here in Jax. Since there are no notices or warnings I assume it won’t kill us. I see no evidence it harms anything but the mosquitos. No shortage of other bugs or frogs etc.
I’m originally from Jax.
won’t know until its tried.
“presumably, also in humans”
Well, there you go. . .hard fact and evidence.
“They would rather see their own grandchildren or children deformed and die before saying they were wrong about DDT”
Well they are going to abort them anyway, especially if they are infected.
“Strongly negative” is precisely the attitude that precludes unbiased scientific investigation. Truth be told much of the scientific community is funded by government and institutional dollars and has a vested interested in sustaining the status quo. There is a vast body of biased research in any number of fields that exists solely for the purpose of controlling the flow of dollars. Certainly in the case of DDT a nearly infinite number of interests are aligned against its use.
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