Posted on 12/07/2015 11:17:08 AM PST by DogByte6RER
I was raised with DDT. Still kicking. I am beginning to hate environs.
Rachel Carson is like Bambi. The emotional reaction overrules what is really true.
Used to follow and play behind the fogging trucks in the 60’s, still here
I bet the eggs they lay have thin shells/s
“I bet the eggs they lay have thin shells”
You didn’t say it all. DDT’s effect on the eggs of birds was the reason it was banned, wasn’t it? Not that it was harmful to people.
Me too, from the late 40s-early 50s 'til I outgrew it.
I found Robert on Ancestry.com in 2 minutes.
Name: Robert Loibl
Last Residence: 92054 Oceanside, San Diego, California, USA
BORN: 7 Jun 1910
Last Benefit: 92054, Oceanside, San Diego, California, United States of America
Died: Sep 1980
State (Year) SSN issued: California (Before 1951) Nothing on his wife.
Too bad the author couldn't be bothered to take the time. I may, I'd guess that the records are out there for the finding.
But, I too doubt that there will be anything to find. "Robert and Louise lived long, happy, and productive lives before expiring at a ripe old age" doesn't sell newspapers.
"Right Wing Kook DDT-deniers die painful lingering deaths as a result of their misguided conservative beliefs", probably would. In fact, I'd not put in past the NYT to invent such a story.
In the wild it is pretty clear that DDT had nothing to do with thin shells but that it was mercury that was causing problems.
DDT was a pesticide that did what it was suppose to do. Killed the pest and did no harm to anyone else. So, of course, it had to be destroyed.
Anything that kept more people alive was bad you see.
It’s great to see that even some 45 years ago there were people bold enough to go against the liberal orthodoxy of that left-wing monster Rachel Carson ... We have a Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg, PA. I’ve begged our representatives to either tear it down or rename it. Nothing.
We need to plan a reunion for DDT Survivers:-) Just to tick-off environmentalists.
The weird and wonderful thing is that DDT has no effect on eggshell thickness. That was just one of the false memes promoted about DDT.
So Loibl died at 70. Filthy genocidal monster Rachel Carson checked into the maggot motel at 56.
Yup. There’s a younger Robert Loibl, born 1930, but Our Robert was 60 in 1971. There were also articles on Ancestry.
Eating DDT pills bookmark.
Rachel Carson was somebody who got her vindictive hour in the sun - and probably killed millions of people in Africa and other tropical locations while getting her glory.
She was never a particularly nice person, from what one reads, and never a great scientist, but she had cancer and wanted to blame someone or something for it. She was both ideologically motivated, being a leftist, and personally motivated, being a non-religious liberal confronting mortality. So what better than the eeevil chemical companies?
And if DDT was the best target, ok, who cares about those millions of Africans, Indians, etc. Margaret Sanger didn’t like them either.
Used to blueberry picking in the evening at the Jersey shore when I was a kid - all the time engulfed by clouds of DDT fog from the spray trucks.
Million must die to make liberals happy with them selves, it seems.
If you don’t have to worry about laying thin-shelled eggs, you’re golden. If you’re a bird, not so much.
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