mamooth
Diamond Member
DDT is so safe that it can be consumed by humans in bulk.
Provided you redefine "safe" to mean "a couple grams won't kill you, but will just do a lot of other nasty things to you in the long term." That's a definition of "safe" that few people use.
Up to this point, no one has identified exactly how DDE causes eggshell thinning.
Not relevant to the fact that _does_ cause eggshell thinning.
Those were government programs, and were often conducted over the objection of the farmers whose crops were being sprayed.
An interesting conspiracy theory there, that the USDA mandated and performed all pesticide spraying on private farms. But what does it even matter? If everyone is banned from mass agricultural usage, mosquitoes don't become resistant to it. There's no downside to such a ban.
DDT was banned for all use in the United States and many other countries. It was only when it was scientifically proven that nothing else works as well as DDT at controlling mosquitoes that limited use of DDT was permitted in some countries to deal with malaria.
An interesting take on history, but DDT was never banned for malaria control.
Did that policy kill millions? Yes.
The teentsy problem again being that DDT was never banned for malaria control. And by preventing DDT-resistant mosquitoes from evolving, the mass-use ban saved millions of lives.
Was it based on bad science and a stupid book? Yes.
Your pseudoscience, which derives from political sources, would have killed millions if implemented.
I will also point out that everything I have posted has been scientific studies except for one link to the NYT, yet you have not addressed any of it.
No, you've given us two red herrings that have nothing to do with the point you're trying to evade. Your eagle study had nothing to do with eggshell thinning, and your "we can't identify the precise cause exactly" study has nothing to do with the fact it's happening.
You've provided no actual evidence for your seemingly faith-based belief that the DDT science is wrong. I'm curious as to what you'll identify as the nefarious motives behind the vast conspiracy to fake all the science across the world.