Article in Prospect on Rachel Carson
I think this article in Prospect on Rachel Carson and DDT is quite good. Update: John Quiggin has posted the director's cut....Posted on May 12, 2008 2:54 PM • 15 Comments
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DDT:
Arnold Kling spreads DDT ban myth
Arnold Kling decides to spread the DDT ban myth: According to Iain Murray's new book, the worst disasters come from environmental policy. It is remarkable the magnitude of the harm caused by government relative to the harm caused by the...Posted on May 2, 2008 2:08 AM • 130 Comments
Monckton has a plan
Monckton tells Glenn Beck how he organised the lawsuit against An Inconvenient Truth: What happened is that I looked at Al Gore's movie with mounting horror and I identified three dozen scientific errors in it. So I had a weather...Posted on March 7, 2008 11:35 AM • 25 Comments
Monckton reckons Gore is the successor to Hitler, Stalin and Mao
Good old Christopher Monckton speaking at the Global Warming Denial Conference According to Monckton, the movement behind global warming alarmism can be traced to some ugly things, and being wrong about it could have a grave impact on humanity. "I...Posted on March 6, 2008 10:50 AM • 29 Comments
New book spreads DDT ban myth
Reader James reports that the DDT ban myth is repeated in a new book: Over the last few decades, however, the WHO has discouraged the use of DDT in member states â encouraged by environmentalists, who have often massively overstated...Posted on February 17, 2008 12:43 PM • 111 Comments
Onearth on DDT and malaria
Kim Larsen has an extensive story on DDT and malaria in onEarth. An extract: DDT proponents are generally reluctant to acknowledge the complicating and protean factor of mosquito resistance. Entomologist May Berenbaum finds this galling. An expert on insecticide metabolism,...Posted on February 12, 2008 12:35 PM • 46 Comments
Revisionist Malaria History?
At Malaria Matters, Bill Brieger suggests that a new report offers a "revisionist malaria history": A new report on the implementation of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) by the World Health Organization begins with the following 'historical' perspective: "In the 1950s...Posted on February 10, 2008 10:40 AM • 3 Comments
Bed Nets and artemisinin dramatically decrease malaria
The World Health Organization has a new report showing dramatic decreases in malaria in Rwanda and Ethiopia following the large-scale distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and artemisinin-combination therapy drugs (ACTs) : Our investigation showed that declines of malaria...Posted on February 2, 2008 2:50 AM • 29 Comments
Schapira on malaria eradication
Allan Schapira is skeptical about the new call for malaria eradication: As much as I would like to point to progress in 2007 comparable to last year's advances, I feel compelled to point out that in international health, a development...Posted on January 2, 2008 2:04 AM • 15 Comments
Good article on Rachel Carson and DDT in Discover
Discover has a good article on Rachel Carson, DDT and malaria. Unlike many other recently published articles (e.g. the New York Times) it gets the science right: But elsewhere, the picture is murkier. According to the World Health Organization (WHO),...Posted on November 21, 2007 10:01 AM • 2 Comments
Malaria eradication: it's back
The Lancet provides a brief history of the attempt to eradicate malaria. In 1955, WHO set out to rid the world of malaria. The campaign, called the Global Malaria Eradication Programme, focused on vector control. The plan was to interrupt...Posted on October 26, 2007 2:10 PM • 31 Comments
DDT and breast cancer
Revere reports on a new paper that found that women with the highest DDT exposure had a five-fold elevated breast cancer risk: This is one study, albeit a well conducted one by experienced investigators. It is also relatively small, limited...Posted on October 4, 2007 1:42 PM • 12 Comments
Did WHO change its DDT policy?
Last year I wrote about the inaccurate claims that the World Health Organization had reversed its policy on DDT when it had in fact supported its use all along. A recent paper in Lancet Infectious Diseases 2007; 7:632-633 also concludes...Posted on September 26, 2007 1:58 PM • 10 Comments
FAIR on the DDT myth
Aaron Swartz has written a nice article giving the story of the anti-environmentalist war on Rachel Carson....Posted on September 21, 2007 2:17 PM • 2 Comments
DDT as snake oil
Ed Darrell writes about the fools promoting DDT as a solution to West Nile virus. It's as if these people think that there are no other insecticides in the world. And he has more examples in a later post: Steve...Posted on September 18, 2007 12:22 AM • 109 Comments
Jim Easter on Sweeney, Ruckelshaus and DDT
It's often claimed by DDT advocates that the 1972 ban on the agricultural use of DDT was made in spite of a report that cleared DDT from harm. Jim Easter has found and posted a copy of the report. It...Posted on August 28, 2007 2:10 PM • 6 Comments
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