Wow… DDT residues have been killing mosquitoes for 40 years
The greatest manmade chemical of all time — still working despite being banned in 1972.
The greatest manmade chemical of all time — still working despite being banned in 1972.
DDT eliminated the Aedes mosquitos from Brazil and Argentina.
We’re not alone.
Allied soldiers liberally sprayed survivors to stop the spread of deadly typhus.
From the Altoona Tribune (Altoona, PA), September 26, 1929.
If this were true, vaccines wouldn’t have worked in the 1950s and 1960s.
by J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy July 26, 1999, JunkScience.com Recommended Reading by the New York Times
Here at JunkScience.com we are DDT advocates, to save the millions of victims of malaria that die or suffer from the terrible disease because of anxious morons in the 1st world.
Milloy has always had a terrible sore about the DDT Rachel Carson story.
If it wasn’t so pathetic, and so mendacious, this would be a good joke.
The AP reports:
Oh… Moonbat… DDT only ever hurt the disease-bearing lice and mosquitos…. Silent Spring is total… what’s the proper word for you… oh, yes… rubbish.