On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:51:02 +0000, with neither quill nor qualm, Andy Dingley quickly quoth:
No? Then why was her book so quickly successful?
Have you read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"? His advocate discussed a few of her worst mistakes.
"On June 14, 1972, 30 years ago this week, the EPA banned DDT despite considerable evidence of its safety offered in seven months of agency hearings. After listening to that testimony, the EPA?s own administrative law judge declared, "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man...DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man...The use of DDT under the regulations involved here [does] not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife." Today environmental activists celebrate the EPA?s DDT ban as their first great victory."
What and where is it killing, Andy? Cites? DDT's inventor got a Nobel Peace Prize for it.
We'd probably have killed the spread of West Nile virus if DDT were still around. DDT doesn't have to be spread by the kiloton (as it was in the 50s and 60s) to be effective.
Against Base regulations and my parents' wishes, I ran behind the fogger truck every season for 9 years, along with all the other kids, sucking up DDT fumes by the truckload. AFAIK, I didn't suffer from it.