If entrepreneurs can use redneck chemistry to whip up some crystal meth, my can't these folks whip up some DDT while they are at it? We have home brew beer, wine, whiskey, weed, meth, etc. Why can't these folks turn their lives around and put their skills to the service of all humanity?
That would be an interesting thing, and a lot more beneficial. The “official” story (Scientific American, which tends to be very trendy, e.g. supporting the global warming scare) is that the modern pyrethrin pesticides and DDT are about equally good. I don’t know to that depth. I think DDT got more of a bum rap than it deserved. It probably starved birds of their insect food when applied too broadly in nature, hence thinner eggshells and the like. There are places where insects are good, and it is silly to bug bomb those places. But that shouldn’t have ever kept it from being used in human dwellings. Sometimes the effects of these bans are very hard on people in the third world today.
That thought has crossed my mind many times.
I've wondered why there isn't a black market for that as well.
Friend, you had me at “weed”.