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More False Claims, From the Environmentalists Will Stewart 3-7-2005 In 1972, America banned one of the greatest inventions of modern times, DDT. By banning this great product, “environmentalists” have caused mass destruction. One of the greatest diseases known to man, malaria, has again started spreading across Africa, as well as many nations in South America. Thanks to DDT, malaria was eradicated from the United States; however, the disease is a very real problem for less fortunate nations—so real that it has killed more people than AIDS or even the Bubonic Plague. In 2003, in Uganda alone, over 80,000 people died...

"Fraud in science is a major problem." So begins "DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud" by the late J. Gordon Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Entomology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. The article was published shortly after his death last July in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Fall, 2004. It is based in part on his 34-page manuscript discussing fraud in acid rain, ozone holes, ultraviolet radiation, carbon dioxide, global warming, and pesticides, particularly DDT. His publications distinguish Edwards as the leading authority on the environmental science and politics of DDT. In World War...

EU must retract threat to ban Uganda exports, if country uses DDT to control malaria. CORE official calls Rijcken an old-fashioned racist who should leave Uganda. [New York, NY] "It is inconceivable, unconscionable and reprehensible that the European Union would put its fear of pesticides above the lives of innocent Ugandan mothers and children," the Congress of Racial Equality’s Cyril Boynes, Jr. said today. "But that is exactly what is happening. EU charge’ d’affaires Guy Rijcken’s vile threat is an abuse of his authority and a serious human rights violation. The Government of Uganda should immediately review his diplomatic credentials."...

Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund--who used public donations to fight the use of life-saving DDT in Third World countries--may be looking at reversing their stand. The Internet surfing JunkScience.com noted first hints of the sudden reversal. While a reversal coming 43 years later would undoubtedly save lives, how many tens of millions have died for nothing during the well-publicized DDT ban? In his New York Times January 8 column, Nicholas Kristof quotes Greenpeace and WWF spokesmen as now being in support of the use of demonized DDT in anti-malarial programs. "I called the World Wildlife Fund, thinking I would...

Six Tsunamis By Angela Logomasini Imagine that every year the world suffered from six or more tsunamis producing the horrific death toll recently experienced. That's how many people die every year from malaria alone, and the tsunami may contribute to even higher rates this year. That disaster has created new habitat suitable for the proliferation of malaria and other disease-carrying mosquitoes. Public health officials can take steps to reduce the impact, one of which involves using the controversial pesticide DDT. Since the 1960s green activists pushed bans of the substance around the world based largely on false claims about its...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Masked workers with mosquito-killing spray guns began moving through refugee camps Friday in tsunami-battered Aceh province, trying to prevent an outbreak of malaria. Indonesia, meanwhile, said it is pursuing a permanent truce with rebels in the area, the worst-hit by the disaster. While the threat of cholera and dysentery is diminishing because clean water is reaching tsunami survivors in Indonesia, the danger of malaria and dengue fever epidemics is increasing, according to the leader of anti-malaria efforts in the region. "Short-term, we're trying to prevent an epidemic," said Richard Allan, director of the Mentor Initiative,...

After the tsunami hit southern Asia late last year, experts warned the next threat would be disease. Today, the Associated Press has reported the experts were right. “The combination of the tsunami and the rains are creating the largest single set of [mosquito] breeding sites that Indonesia has ever seen in its history,” said Richard Allan, director of the Mentor Initiative, a group that specializes in fighting malaria. When told the World Health Organization warned that disease could kill more people than the deadly tidal waves, he replied, “If anything, I think they are being conservative. Three-quarters of those [total]...

January 13, 2005 To the Editor: "It's Time to Spray DDT," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Jan. 8), highlights the devastating impact of malaria and the fact that DDT is highly effective in saving lives. Unless donor agencies change their stance on DDT, and indeed on the use of all insecticides in malaria control, malaria will continue to claim more than a million lives a year. The Ugandan Ministry of Health announced that it intended to use DDT in carefully controlled spraying programs as one of many tools to control malaria. The choice of DDT is a good one. World...

Committing malpractice on the world’s poor These unnatural disasters should no longer be tolerated by Paul Driessen The tsunami that struck Asia and Somalia left unprecedented, unfathomable death and destruction in its wake. It was a shocking reminder that, for all its beauty and bounties, Mother Nature still periodically unleashes awesome powers that threaten our lives, even our very civilization – and expose the shocking vulnerability of our Earth’s poorest communities. Equally unprecedented is the life-giving aid that continues to flow to these battered regions. It reflects the best that humans are capable of – and the vital importance of...

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries. I'm thrilled that we're pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the relief effort, but the tsunami was only a blip in third-world mortality. Mosquitoes kill 20 times more people each year than the tsunami did, and in the long war between humans and mosquitoes it looks as if mosquitoes...

It's Time to Spray DDT By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF f the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries. I'm thrilled that we're pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the relief effort, but the tsunami was only a blip in third-world mortality. Mosquitoes kill 20 times more people each year than the tsunami did, and in the long war...

BRING BACK DDT  By Michelle Malkin   ·   January 08, 2005 11:02 AM  Bravo for New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who calls today for DDT to be sprayed in malaria-ravaged countries. Here's the intro: If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.I'm thrilled that we're pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the relief effort, but the...

OP-ED COLUMNIST If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries. I'm thrilled that we're pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the relief effort, but the tsunami was only a blip in third-world mortality. Mosquitoes kill 20 times more people each year than the tsunami did, and in the long war between humans and mosquitoes it looks as...

You've seen the horrific images of walls of water rushing up beaches, sweeping away everything – and everyone – in its path. You've seen the dead piled up like cordwood, wounded survivors, and persons collapsing upon hearing their entire family has vanished. Alas, you may not have seen the worst. Dr. David Nabarro, head of crisis operations for the U.N. World Health Organization, warned that disease could take more lives than the waves. "The initial terror associated with the tsunamis and the earthquake itself may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected communities,'' he said. The main...

"A blight that has been all but eliminated in the West, malaria still claims between one million and two million lives every year in the underdeveloped world. ... The bigger problem is the politicized international health agencies that discourage the employment of all available tools of prevention -- specifically insecticides containing DDT that is anathema to environmentalists," according to a Wall Street Journal editorial. "Bed nets and preventive medicines play important roles, but spraying homes with pesticides is vital. Use of DDT, developed during World War II and the main reason that America and Europe no longer harbor malarial mosquitoes,...

Aid workers tending to the ravaged islands and coastlines of southern Asia say a big concern is an outbreak of malaria and other waterborne diseases.... Which reminds us of a just-out World Health Organization report anticipating a shortage in a key antimalarial drug.... This news about treatments wouldn't be so devastating but for the fact that the international groups in charge still can't get malaria prevention under control. And that's the real tragedy. A blight that has been all but eliminated in the West, malaria still claims between one million and two million lives every year in the underdeveloped world....

Kampala THE Government will start spraying the controversial dichlorodyfenychloroethene (DDT) early next year, information state minister Dr Nsaba Buturo said. "Government strongly believes that DDT is very useful in the fight against malaria and the first phase will be early next year, possibly in January. We have carried out tests which have proved that DDT is not harmful as long as it is sprayed selectively," he said. Buturo said the first phase would cover about 15 districts, including the most vulnerable districts like Kisoro, Kabale, Rukungiri and others around Lake Victoria. "We are convinced that DDT will reduce the risk...

WASHINGTON – A forgotten old nursery rhyme is having more meaning for Americans these days. "Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite." But they are biting in all 50 states as they haven't bitten since the 1940s, say pest control companies, scientists and health officials. And, indeed, it is making sleep more difficult for Americans of all walks of life – from denizens of homeless shelters to those visiting the swankiest five-star hotels. Outbreaks of bedbug infestations have been reported from coast to coast, north and south and among rich and poor. Experts attribute the plague largely to two factors:...

Environmentalists love to pat themselves on the back for one of their proudest accomplishments of the 20th century. I'm talking about the banning of DDT. I'm sure everything you've heard about DDT is bad. The fact is, the banning of DDT has resulted in the deaths of millions of third world people. This link gives a clue as to the lengths leftists will go to to feel good about themselves. These tree-huggers are a danger because they think they know what's best for the unenlightened masses. They feel it is up to them to guide the rest of the uninformed...

 The Malaria Clock: A Green Eco-Imperialist Legacy of Death In April 1972, after seven months of testimony, EPA Administrative Law Judge Edmund Sweeney stated that “DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man. ... The uses of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds, or other wildlife. ... The evidence in this proceeding supports the conclusion that there is a present need for the essential uses of DDT.”* Two months later, EPA head [and Environmental Defense Fund member/fundraiser] William Ruckelshaus - who had never attended a single...