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LAWYER and HISTORY MAJOR who worked at EPA, one a Coug legend that killed Millions, endorse Hillary
HoustonHusky
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Always funny when a lawyer and a history major start hiding behind science, especially with the history of one of them. Specifically...
William Ruckelshaus, a lawyer and Coug legend:
http://ruckelshauscenter.wsu.edu/
Who as EPA administrator commissioned a study on the safety of DDT and then completely ignored it (in true scientific fashion) and banned DDT (and made himself the arbiter of appeals of the decision), a decision that lead to the death of at least 20 million children. And the scientific reason he gave for this "decision":
“The ultimate judgment [on DDT] remains political."
Sounds kinda OZONEfs...
William Ruckelshaus, a lawyer and Coug legend:
http://ruckelshauscenter.wsu.edu/
Who as EPA administrator commissioned a study on the safety of DDT and then completely ignored it (in true scientific fashion) and banned DDT (and made himself the arbiter of appeals of the decision), a decision that lead to the death of at least 20 million children. And the scientific reason he gave for this "decision":
“The ultimate judgment [on DDT] remains political."
Sounds kinda OZONEfs...
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And if you think we should still have DDT in our environment, then you should drink a gallon of it, light yourself on fire, and then fuck off.
Keeps slurping Hillary...
Sure thing.
And it is still used today...although most people went away from it because we tied our foreign aid to banning its use (and after time people have come up with alternatives).
But that still doesn't change the original throwing out of science for political reasons (i.e. the official science review concluded it was "not a carcinogenic hazard to man" and "not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man" and "use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife"....not to mention the original falsified "science" and nutjob claims of Rachel Carson), and the fact you are quoting the lawyer that threw out science as a science expert for Hillary is just comedy.
Were these the same types of industry experts that wanted us to believe for so many years that smoking is safe and good for our health?
BTW, the entire world banned DDT for agriculture use, not just those receiving aid from the USA.
By Marjorie Mazel Hecht
What DDT Can Do
Banned to Kill People
The Silent Spring Fraud
POPs Convention Is Genocide
Full text of Editorial from Summer 2002 issue
The 1972 U.S. ban on DDT is responsible for a genocide 10 times larger than that for which we sent Nazis to the gallows at Nuremberg. It is also responsible for a menticide which has already condemned one entire generation to a dark age of anti-science ignorance, and is now infecting a new one.
The lies and hysteria spread to defend the DDT ban are typical of the irrationalist, anti-science wave which has virtually destroyed rational forms of discourse in our society. If you want to save science—and human lives—the fight to bring back DDT, now being championed by that very electable candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., had better be at the top of your agenda.
Sixty million people have died needlessly of malaria, since the imposition of the 1972 ban on DDT, and hundreds of millions more have suffered from this debilitating disease. The majority of those affected are children. Of the 300 to 500 million new cases of malaria each year, 200 to 300 million are children, and malaria now kills one child every 30 seconds. Ninety percent of the reported cases of malaria are in Africa, and 40 percent of the world’s population, inhabitants of tropical countries, are threatened by the increasing incidence of malaria.
The DDT ban does not only affect tropical nations. In the wake of the DDT ban, the United States stopped its mosquito control programs, cutting the budgets for mosquito control and monitoring. Exactly as scientists had warned 25 years ago, we are now facing increases of mosquito-borne killer diseases—West Nile fever and dengue, to name the most prominent.
DDT came into use during World War II, and in a very short time saved more lives and prevented more diseases than any other man-made chemical in history. Millions of troops and civilians, in particular war refugees, were saved from typhus because one DDT dusting killed the body lice that spread that dread disease.
Why was DDT banned, 30 years after its World War II introduction and spectacular success in saving lives? The reason was stated bluntly by Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, who wrote in a biographical essay in 1990, “My chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population problem.” King was particularly concerned that DDT had dramatically cut the death rates in the developing sector, and thus increased population growth.
As King correctly observed, the incidence of malaria, and its death rates, were vastly reduced by DDT spraying. To take one example: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) had 2.8 million cases of malaria and more than 12,500 deaths in 1946, before the use of DDT. In 1963, after a large-scale spraying campaign, the number of cases fell to 17, and the number of deaths fell to 1. But five years after the stop of spraying, in 1969, the number of deaths had climbed to 113, and the number of cases to 500,000. Today, malaria rates have soared in countries that stopped spraying. In South Africa, the malaria incidence increased by 1,000 percent in the late 1990s.
Brilliant science...