Michael Crichton on DDT
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He died of Cancer. Thanks for the opinion but I like my food free of DDT.
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even if ddt stats are true hes right it saved more ppl than killed due to malaria
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@russellchannel Im afraid i cant agree with you im afraid but i respect your intelligence to know that there is a truth behind it.
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@TheSFODD I will leave it with this. Most people who listen to this argument and believe it, believe there was a ban on DDT for disease control - there never was. They believe Malaria "exploded" after this ban, - the only explosion occurred before the ban and in areas where DDT was still under use. They believe that if DDT were "legalized (it has always been legal for disease control, everywhere), it would "solve" the malaria problem,but DDT use left off because of resistance.
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@russellchannel at this point i can see your argument in a more literal sense. However i also see that neither one is willing to backdown how about we leave on friendly terms? As they say to each his own.
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@TheSFODD read the history of the WHO eradication program. It'll only take you you a few minutes. Read the wikipedia entry, and if you don;t trust it, follow the links at the bottom of the page to the WHO's own pages. DDT had ceased working years before the ban and there was a huge explosion of resistant mosquitos and malaria in South Asia which was the main reason they stopped the program and the spraying - well in advance of any ban. And Mosquitos do not breed in moist fields.
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@TheSFODD No it was not. The World Health Organization discontinued the use of DDT in disease vector control because of an explosion in mosquitos in sprayed areas due to resistance. Resistance that had been recorded decades prior. There were massive explosions of resistant mosquitos and malaria in sprayed areas of India and Bangladesh. And this happened years BEFORE any ban.
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@russellchannel Oh really you mean if it prevented mosquit births it would be permitted? Thats funny cause it was excactly what it was doing before it was banned
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@TheSFODD a) moist fields are not mosquito breeding grounds. 2) if they were, DDT use would be permitted. and C) it DOES NOT MATTER. The WHO ceased using DDT in its eradication program because it was not working...and this happened before ANY ban.
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@russellchannel DDT was banned for agriculture + Moist enviornments of fields = Mosquito breeding grounds. Simple formula
What he says is absolutely true (I've read up on DDT and malaria and talked to doctors enough to know the veracity of what he says). It shows the price paid for political correctness. Millions of deaths. And if you catch malaria and it doesn't kill you, it can stay in your system for the rest of you life and flare up on occasion. Reminds me of Lysenko (Google it).
Bambikino 2 years ago 34
Actually the Studies that were conducted on Falcon eggs, were done by a team that fed only chicken meat to the Birds, instead of the entire chicken. Raptors get their Calcium intake from eating the Bones of their prey.
The Entire study has been discredited, but with our MSM hiding the truth about it, makes them just as Guilty as those who have perpetrated this Genocide against the Poorer nations of the world.
Progressives want to kill off all Useless Eaters, and then are coming for you!
NAZI'S
Sonny9257 2 years ago 8