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DDT: Malaria's answer in Africa?
Washington Times ^ | Sunday, June 16, 2002 | By Tom Carter

Posted on 06/15/2002 10:43:18 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

To grasp the toll and terror of malaria in the world today, Harvard University's Amir Attaran offers a visual device: Imagine seven jumbo jets, each packed with women and children, crashing into the ground every day

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africawatch; enviralists
Sunday, June 16, 2002

Quote of the Day by Maceman

1 posted on 06/15/2002 10:43:18 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
This guy has no understanding of bonding with organic sediments.
2 posted on 06/15/2002 10:51:40 PM PDT by Soul Citizen
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To: JohnHuang2
So pervasive was the anti-DDT hysteria, that the public outcry is often cited as the beginning of modern environmental activism in the United States.

So the entire environmental movement is based on junk science -- junk science that has killed tens of millions of people.

But the enviros have cleaned up their act now, of course. And there's this bridge in Brooklyn I wanna tell you about...

3 posted on 06/15/2002 11:03:03 PM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: The Great Satan
So the entire environmental movement is based on junk science -- junk science that has killed tens of millions of people.

Truer words than these have never been uttered or written.

4 posted on 06/15/2002 11:09:08 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: The Great Satan
At that meeting, the World Bank pledged an additional $300 million to $500 million to help fight malaria, but so far little has been spent.

Forget the bridge. A really smart business(con)man would sell them $500 million worth of fly swatters.

5 posted on 06/16/2002 7:20:53 AM PDT by Temple Owl
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To: The Great Satan
There were a whole shelf-full of enviro-catastrophe books written in the 60's and 70's~~Silent Spring was the original, I guess. All composed of half-truths, idle speculations, irrational and illogical thinking, factual errors and downright lies--all souped up by the idiot enthusiasms of the "New Left."

These were most often written by scientists who traded on their credentials to pontificate in areas way beyond their competence. These fraudulent screeds were uncritically sucked in and digested by the sophomoric mediocrities of the day, now the banal practitioners of cynical hysterics who infest our classrooms, news media, bureaucracies, and pulpits.

Some, like many schoolteachers and preachers, are simply credulous fools not bright enough to know better; others know they are falsifying , but as stated by the "Science" editor for Newsweek, believe it is fine to lie for what is seen as a good cause.

Stolid bureaucrats like the USAID man just plod on down the path, never letting facts interfere with what they know.

Most malignant are the anti-human population bombers, like the Sierra Club and allied alien Mother Ships, who oppose DDT (for example) precisely because it does save lives. To these crackpots, malaria is an ally in their drive for population control.

The Left Branch of the Baby Boom has a great deal to answer for.

6 posted on 06/16/2002 7:36:17 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: *Enviralists;*AfricaWatch;Clive;
Bump list and fyi
7 posted on 06/16/2002 8:37:11 AM PDT by Free the USA
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To: hinckley buzzard
There were a whole shelf-full of enviro-catastrophe books written in the 60's and 70's

Indeed. Remember Paul Erlich (The Population Bomb, The End of Affluence)? Remember the Club of Rome (The Limits to Growth)? That's to name but a couple of the most "prestigious" enviro-frauds, up there with the mass-homicide-inspiring Rachel Carson. What a bunch of garbage.

8 posted on 06/16/2002 12:06:36 PM PDT by The Great Satan
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To: JohnHuang2
I've read stories about guys falling into vats of the stuff in the 50's who are still walking around. Basic bottom lines seem to be that DDT is the greatest thing the white man ever invented, and Rachel Carson needs to be burned at the stake.
9 posted on 06/16/2002 12:12:31 PM PDT by medved
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