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To: SmokingJoe; big'ol_freeper; trisham; Dr. Brian Kopp; metmom; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; ...
Sleeper agent huh?
That makes it even worse.

Okay troll, let's hear your theory.

I pointed out that DDT kills mosquitoes and this stops malaria.

I pointed out that in 1962 a leftist named Rachel Carson wrote a book called Silent Spring in which she blamed DDT for eggs being too thin even though she had no actual data to prove this.

I pointed out that because of Silent Spring countries started to ban the use of DDT and the mosquito population flourished and malaria rates started to skyrocket.

So tell me troll, which of these FACTS makes me a "sleeper agent"?

55 posted on 05/28/2010 9:06:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; SmokingJoe

Ah yes, Silent Spring, which was used as propaganda for more than just DDT use.
The enviro movement used it as a lever to gain power and control.
(Then.. after awhile, people said “We’d better try and get data on egg shell thickness.. oh look! A pair of nesting eagles! The shells must be thicker due to banning DDT!”)


57 posted on 05/28/2010 9:10:41 AM PDT by Darksheare (Windows Se7en: It's called "seven" for a reason.)
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To: wagglebee; SmokingJoe

Silent Spring the DDT ban and teh subsequent studies were a prime example of “Science After the Fact”.
(Or, as AlGore says it “There’s no more need for debate! The science is settled! You must be one of those deniers!”)


59 posted on 05/28/2010 9:14:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (Windows Se7en: It's called "seven" for a reason.)
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To: wagglebee
I pointed out that DDT kills mosquitoes and this stops malaria.

Yeah?
You also claimed and I quote (# 34):

“Bill Gates and his ilk at the UN are the LEADING CAUSE OF MALARIA DEATHS!”

So I asked you a few questions about exactly how Gates managed to be the leading cause of malaria deaths on the planet, and you are yet to answer any of those questions.

I pointed out that DDT kills mosquitoes and this stops malaria.’

Perhaps you will show me exactly what Gates had to do with the banning of DDT yes?
If I remember correctly Gates was a geeky kid at the time DDT was banned, no? He had the power to ban DDT when he was a kid too?

I pointed out that in 1962 a leftist named Rachel Carson wrote a book called Silent Spring in which she blamed DDT for eggs being too thin even though she had no actual data to prove this.”

Umm..what has all that got to do with do with Gates again?

60 posted on 05/28/2010 9:19:57 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: wagglebee

I wonder, if I point out that I was taught the same ‘science facts’ about DDT and Eagle’s eggs in a presentation at some ‘museum’ or ‘institute’ during a field trip in grade school (along with permanently branded images of horrific birth defects at a young age) during the early 80s would they think I was a “sleeper agent” as well?

The only thing I can’t remember clearly is exactly what grade we attended this field trip during, and exactly where it was (somewhere in the Chicagoland area). That’s a full twenty years +/- after Carson wrote her book and it was being taught to us as ‘fact’ even then. Surely after 20 years this had been debunked — I clearly also remember mosquito trucks traveling through my neighborhood growing up...


252 posted on 05/28/2010 7:40:45 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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