[rktman]

LOL! How many ears did he consume DDT to show it was safe? Yet, he eventually died. But not from DDT.

[Red Badger]

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Fall02/Mosquitoes.html

The author, featured in Esquire magazine, September 1971, eating a tablespoon of DDT, a feat he repeated publicly almost every week in his public campaign to show the safety of DDT.
(Courtesy of J. Gordon Edwards)

[Red Badger]

He lived to be 85 years old................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Gordon_Edwards_(entomologist_and_mountaineer)