Bring Back DDT

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | Thursday, August 7, 2003 | By Henry I. Miller

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, August 7, 2003

Quote of the Day by Arthur Wildfire! March

[Tribune7]

And bringing back DDT does not mean allowing it to be sprayed haphazardly or without strict protocols in the way that it used to be.

[TBall]

I was surprised to see how fast WNV is spreading in Colorado. So far four deaths, 111 confirmed cases and an additional 99 suspected cases.

[genefromjersey]

I had read something similar last week. The suggestion was made that DDT HELPS birds. Well, maybe-certain species that live primarily on seeds. It seemed to cause "birth defects" in the form of soft/easily broken egg shells in fish or flesh eating birds, and it was MORE than a "junk science" scare item.

That said,we still need to do something about mosquitos before THEY win !

[wjcsux]

For more information on DDT, check out this website http://www.junkscience.com. The owner of this site has compiled a lot of information on DDT.

[Sunshine Sister]

You can bet your bottom dollar that the requests to use DDT will be met with screeches of protest regardless of the fact that it can save lives. That is not what the environmentalists are all about.

[TBall]

More than just human lives. With WNV DDT would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of birds.

[sergeantdave]

It seemed to cause birth defects?

That ain't science; it's an opinion. In fact, the eco-fascists cannot cite one scientific study that validates the claim. If you know of such a scientific study, post it. Dozens of Nobel scientists are anxiously waiting to read it. I suppose if you soak an egg in DDT it might cause some harm, but that's not a valid scientific experiment.

“Carson and those who joined her in the crusade against DDT have contributed to millions of preventable deaths. Used responsibly, DDT can be quite safe for man and the environment,” said former Surgeon General and retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Dr. Harold M. Koenig.

“DDT is the best insecticide we have today for controlling malaria,” said malaria expert Dr. Donald Roberts of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. “DDT is long-acting, the alternatives are not. DDT is cheap, the alternatives are not. End of story.”

DDT is also not hazardous to humans or the environment - despite all the propaganda to the contrary. According to tests conducted by Dr. Philip Butler, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Sabine Island Research Laboratory, “92 percent of DDT and its metabolites disappear” from the environment after 38 days. (See Environmental Protection Agency's DDT hearings transcript, page 3,726.) Plus, humans have nothing to worry about with small exposures to DDT.

[1Old Pro]

bump for bringing back DDT.

[dljordan]

Yeah, the "strict protocols" they used to use when I was a kid in Nashville, Tn. was to drive a jeep with a sprayer through the neighborhood. All of us kiddies would follow the thing right in the middle of the cloud because we thought it was so cool. Guess what? I'm still alive and kicking.

[TBall]

I used to do that ond. Did the jeep have a siren on top?

[brityank]

Bump and Ping.

The Grange should get behind this. Rachel Carson is responsible for more human death and misery than DDT ever caused wildlife.

[Colorado Doug]

I was surprised to see how fast WNV is spreading in Colorado. So far four deaths, 111 confirmed cases and an additional 99 suspected cases.

One of my horses came down with West Nile two days ago. He looks like he is going to recover though. The vet said that he is getting all kinds of WNV cases.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It seemed to cause "birth defects" in the form of soft/easily broken egg shells in fish or flesh eating birds, and it was MORE than a "junk science" scare item.

Could that be because it robbed the birds' diets of bugs? Not good for the birds, but maybe it suggests some kind of bird diet supplementation that could be done in a DDT'd area. Like the release of harmless, DDT-proofed bug species.

[TBall]

Maybe its the mosquitos out in Colorado. I seem to recall them being rather large beasts. Good luck with your horses.

[LiberationIT]

I'm curious. I recall that when HIV started spreading there was discussion about it too being spread by mosquitos. There were assurances by some that it could not be spread this way.

Can mosquitos spread some viruses but not others? Anybody know?

[ServesURight]

This guy wants to bring back the DDT too:

[StriperSniper]

“Carson and those who joined her in the crusade against DDT have contributed to millions of preventable deaths.

Then again, that's nothing new for the left, afterall they also defended Stalin.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

How many American citizens will have to die at the eco-freak's alter of earth worship? No bird is worth more than the life of any human being.

[Thommas]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What a laugh riot, what a scream! When rachael carlson's fabrication A Silent Stream came out, the econazis raised such a clamor in the press, college campuses, and eastern salons that the sheeple demanded the elimination of the most effective pesticide known to man. Now after the years have passed, and the facts of rachael's bias, calumny, distortions, lies and propaganda have long since been quantified, we still suffer from insect vectors and damage that DDT use would eradicate. The Eastern seaboard is suffering from West Nile when simple application of a proven solution would terminate the problem; but they still don't want it. Hehe, let the sheeple eat cake.

By the way, simple application of DDT in most African nations goes a long way to wiping out malaria, a disease more deadly that the "AIDS epidemic."