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Andrew Bolt endorses Lancet study
Posted by Tim Lambert on November 4, 2010 Andrew Bolt accepts the results of a study published in The Lancet that used random sampling to estimate deaths and came up with a figure of 200,000 per year, about ten times the number you get from a direct count. Actually, there are two studies that fit my description, one on deaths from malaria in…
Paul Sheehan spreads DDT hoax
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 31, 2010 Paul “Magic Water” Sheehan offers a “counter perspective” to Monckton’s big lie that environmentalists killed 40 million people by banning DDT: The claim that millions have lost their lives as a result of the withdrawal of DDT is hotly contested among scientists. Speculation over the number of deaths caused by the withdrawal of DDT ranges…
Inside the DDT Propaganda Machine
Posted by Tim Lambert on January 24, 2010 The Tyee has published an extract from a book by Donald Gutstein on corporate propaganda in Canada: In the years since the Stockholm Treaty was signed, readers of Canadian newspapers have not had an opportunity for Greenpeace’s position on DDT to be explained to them by Greenpeace itself. The only information they received about this…
Barbara Eskanazi interviewed on DDT
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 11, 2009 Seed Magazine has interviewed epidemiologist Barbara Eskanazi about her survey article on the effects of DDT on human health: SEED: What kinds of long-term health problems can we expect? BE: I don’t really know. I can’t predict, but I can say that if the studies that I read hold true we may see higher rates…
WHO plans to reduce reliance on DDT to fight malaria
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 24, 2009 The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization have announced new projects to test methods for fighting malaria with less use of DDT: Ten projects, all part of the global programme “Demonstrating and Scaling-up of sustainable Alternatives to DDT in Vector Management”, involving some 40 countries in Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Central…
Ceri Dingle’s campaign to kill African babies
Posted by Tim Lambert on May 1, 2009 A recent peer-reviewed scientific paper in Malaria Journal by Yukich, Lengeler, Tediosi, Brown, Mulligan, Chavasse, Stevens, Justino, Conteh, Maharaj, Erskine, Mueller, Wiseman, Ghebremeskel, Zerom, Goodman, McGuire, Urrutia, Sakho, Hanson and Sharp compared several large vector control programs to prevent malaria, including both insecticide-treated nets (ITN) and indoor residual spraying (IRS). The results: Method cost per…