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DDT makes a comeback in effort to halt malaria
Baltimore Sun ^
| 8/27/06
| Scott Calvert
Posted on 08/27/2006 6:44:50 AM PDT by mathprof
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To: StACase
WOW! There is no rational argument you can use with these people.
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posted on
08/27/2006 7:30:08 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: mathprof
The problem with DDT is that it kills pretty much every insect with which it comes in contact, good, bad, indifferent, it just kills them. That includes insects that prey on other insects and pollinating insects. When you do something like this you may affect food chains in ways that may have worse consequences than the malaria, say, eliminating your pollinating insects and the local fruit crop.
As an alternative to DDT, there is a form of water bourn bacteria discovered by an Israeli scientist that specifically kill mosquito bacteria. The product is available in the US. It's smart to use nature against nature.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; All
This is why we have West Nile virus and bird-flu. Bring back DDT - immediately.Ditto, how about eradicating the widespread Lyme ticks?
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posted on
08/27/2006 7:53:23 AM PDT
by
melancholy
(Now that we killed Abu Musaab Al Zarqawi, we are forced to listen to Abu John Al Murthawi.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Insects don't "develop" a resistance to DDT. It kills them all and there are no survivors. That's like saying ebola will become resistance to being killed by bleach(ebola outside of the body of a carrier), it won't happen. The book silent spring was built on flawed work and has done a great disservice to the world, once again fanatical greenies have pushed an agenda that has caused more harm than good.
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:06:34 AM PDT
by
calex59
(Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
It's smart to use nature against nature.
Yes, the mongoose was introduced to Hawaii and the folks there just love them.
Naturally Speaking
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:09:59 AM PDT
by
StACase
To: mathprof
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:12:09 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The DDT ban has killed more people in this world than Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin and all the Chinese dictators put together, but you'll probably not find that stated anywhere. The death of millions can be laid at the door of environmentalists. Why anyone listens to anything they say is a constant amazement to me.
To: mathprof
To: MamaTexan
Rachel Carson was part of a corporate conspiracy?
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:13:22 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: RadioAstronomer
She said, and I quote, "wouldn't the world be a much better place if the human race was extinct"? Frankly, I am surprised that you're surprised. This is not an uncommon perspective for the far left enviro types, and even more common for animal rights activists.
APf
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:16:16 AM PDT
by
APFel
(Individualism. The alpha and the omega.)
To: RadioAstronomer
Did you politely suggest she commit suicide to prove her commitment to the cause?
To: RadioAstronomer
She has a car and a big house? Well isn't she the committed environmentalist, using all these resources to maintain her life style? Just like a liberal, it's good for everyone else but not for them. She should be living in a natural cave and walking everywhere if she really believes what she says. And does she have children? I suppose not and I hope not as they will not live long if she really believes what she said. These people are fools of the first order.
To: A Strict Constructionist
Sorry, posting before reading the rest causes reduntant comments.
To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
[ As an alternative to DDT, there is a form of water bourn bacteria discovered by an Israeli scientist that specifically kill mosquito bacteria. ]
What is mosquito bacteria?...
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:20:43 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole.)
To: mathprof
No one proposes a return to the widespread agricultural use that severely harmed ecosystems in the United States and Europe decades ago. The results of such spraying were famously depicted in Rachel Carson's landmark 1962 book Silent Spring, which launched the modern environmental movement.Except that the "results of such spraying" depicted in Miss Carson's book were all lies.
Two books in the twentieth century killed over a hundred million people each - Mein Kampf and Silent Spring.
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:21:42 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(President of the FR Rudy 2008 caucus, posting for 3 days from the City he saved.)
To: Gay State Conservative
I'm no infectious disease specialistWell, I'm board-certified,and I assure you that DDT is essential to combat malaria.
It will also eliminate West Nile, EEE, and a variety of other undesireables.
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:23:41 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(President of the FR Rudy 2008 caucus, posting for 3 days from the City he saved.)
To: pepperdog
And does she have children?Nope. I never asked why. (Nor was I there long enough to find out)
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:24:23 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: mathprof
To: A Strict Constructionist
Gads I wanted to. But I am far too polite. LOL!
(Maybe too polite sometimes)
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posted on
08/27/2006 8:25:44 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: mathprof
Thank God for that. They should have done this a long long time ago. There has never been any actual proof of DDT harming the enviornment; most phoney junk science like that stupid Rachael whatever her name is.
But, then there are those who think zero population is great; or atleast selective population is. I say phooey. You do that and you have probably lost some creative minds of the future. I can see it now; the headlines scream "Oops, something went wrong....our carefully designed babies are no more than robots; designed and planned only to think and do as we tell them". Wouldn't Hitlery and her crowd love that?
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