Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Tim Worstall reports that James Lovelock (who I criticised earlier for his global warming alarmism) has fallen for the myth that the use of DDT against malaria is banned. In his new book Lovelock writes:
"insecticides badly needed controlling, but the indiscriminate banning of DDT and other chlorinated insecticides was a selfish, ill informed act driven by affluent radicals in the first world. The inhabitants of tropical countries have paid a high price in death and illness as a result of their inability to use DDT as an effective controller of malaria"
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More info here of the myths. See home page for lots more.
http://info-pollution.com/ddtban.htm http://info-pollution.com/moreddt.htm
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