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DDT Ban is Relaxed

Commentary for Wednesday 03/21/2007 DDT Ban Relief

Looking for Relief: Quoted from "Junk Science.com" Sept 21, 2006, quote: "It only took 30 years, tens of millions of lives lost, billions sickened and trillions of dollars of economic growth foregone, but the World Health Organization finally ended its ban on use of the insecticide DDT to kill malaria-bearing mosquitoes. It’s great news for developing nations that want to employ the most affordable and effective anti-malarial tool. So what should happen to those environmental activists and government regulators who used junk science to have DDT banned in the first place?"

Threats of Banning Exports: The poorest of the worlds countries have been held hostage to the nonsensical ban on DDT, while the poorest among the poor among us struggle to survive. Survive in the classic sense, economically with just the very basics, but they also have to contend with the heartbreak of Malaria. One of the most useful tools to combat this horrible disease, DDT, was banned. DDT wasn't banned because science had proven it to be harmful to any human or animal, but because of liberal hype and emotion. DDT was accused of everything from 'Eggshell Thinning' to causing cancer.

Banninng the Pesticide DDT: The EPA hearings on DDT concluded that DDT was not harmful but was overturned by William Ruckelshaus the EPA Administrator. Quoted from Junk Science.com, "William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who made the ultimate decision to ban DDT in 1972, was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. Ruckelshaus solicited donations for EDF on his personal stationery that read "EDF's scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won."

2 Strikes Against it: Like most political determinations made, there was more to the decision than met the eye. At the time of the decision, there was worry about over-population. Some of the major crusaders against DDT had determined that this would be as effective as any birth control in the third world to control the wildly increasing populations in those countries. These advocates latched onto the phoney science and exaggerated the claims against it. So basically by prohibiting the sale of DDT, they let Malaria do the dirty work by killing millions of people. This seems cruel by any standard. The alternate route of education and real birth control, would have been a better alternative. Malaria is not a great way to go, even if you disregard the moral issues. The other strike was the campaign against DDT by the Audabon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund. Once committed, there was no turning back. Theirs was an honest involvement, and most members honestly believed in what they were doing. At least there was no sinister motives in their cause.

Still Can't Spray: The ban that was lifted in September only allows a limited application of DDT. They can use it to coat walls, and use with mosquito netting to help curb the disease. But even that little bit is seen as a major victory. Please read more on the DDT ban here: http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html For better explanations of the DDT fiasco.

Even after 2 Days: I still have not finished making the changes recommended to me by Google. As I stated in a previous commentary, this is a one person operation. It takes between 4-6 hours of research for a short commentary, accuracy demands no less. The links that I put on this website are used because of their accuracy. I will go to many websites, plus use my set of Encyclopedia Britannica extensively to get to the bottom of the subject that I am writing about. Only those sites which are thoroughly bibliographed and checked are posted for you to look at. Keeping up with 2 web-sites plus doing all the coding, researching, and making sure that I have standing with the major search engines is a full time operation. Hopefully, in a couple of days, I will have completed the new indexing system and can publish it. - Thanks for your patience!

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