100 Things You Should Know About DDT

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100 Things You Should Know About DDT

by J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy
July 26, 1999, JunkScience.com
Recommended Reading by the New York Times

I. Historical Background
II. Advocacy against DDT
III. EPA hearings
IV. Human exposure
V. Cancer
VI. Egg shell thinning
VII. Bald eagles
VIII. Peregrine falcons
IX. Brown pelicans
X. Bird populations increase during DDT years
XI.Erroneous detection

https://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/

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Most people erroneously believe DDT was banned in the US. It wasn't.

Good thing we cut back its use and don't use it agricultural ly anymore. Places like India didn't, and now it's worthless for vector control. Mosquitoes in India are immune to it.

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#101.  It sure kills the hell out of fire ants.  If we still had this to use, fire ants would be no problem whatsoever.

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Most people erroneously believe DDT was banned in the US. It wasn't.

Good thing we cut back its use and don't use it agricultural ly anymore. Places like India didn't, and now it's worthless for vector control. Mosquitoes in India are immune to it.

if you had read item #8, you would know the reasons.  The bottomliNE is DDT has saved far more lives than were lost from it.   No wonder the inventor won a Nobel prize, back in the pre-Algore/Obama days when it meant something.

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if you had read item #8, you would know the reasons.  The bottomliNE is DDT has saved far more lives than were lost from it.   No wonder the inventor won a Nobel prize, back in the pre-Algore/Obama days when it meant something.

You evidently didn't read #8 and what I wrote. #8 confirms what I wrote --that agricultural use, not vector control, resulted in ending its effectiveness.

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You evidently didn't read #8 and what I wrote. #8 confirms what I wrote --that agricultural use, not vector control, resulted in ending its effectiveness.

It was used incorrectly.  It is fine for agricultural control of pests.

So why do you still claim we are better off now than before?