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Category Archives: DDT and wildlife
Hawks in danger of extinction in illegal hunting campaign
Can’t be. DDT was banned long ago? Continue reading
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University studies unique ecological archive
This actually does come up with a genuine mechanism where swifts could have been harmed by DDT – and not the infamous eggshell-thinning nonsense: Continue reading
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Silent Spring at 50: Reflections on an Environmental Classic
PERC’s Generous Reflection: Fifty years after the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book’s legacy is mixed. Continue reading
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DDT didn’t eliminate bald eagles from Alabama, either
Don Pagath doesn’t know that. Continue reading
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DDT didn’t do-in whooping cranes either
Unless hunters were blasting whooping cranes with DDT shotgun shells… Continue reading
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DDT ban didn’t bring eagles to Maryland either
More reveling in tragic ignorance. Continue reading
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Bald Eagle Population Soars In South Dakota
Too bad knowledge about DDT doesn’t soar, too. Continue reading
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Paper again wrongly asserts raptor populations controlled by DDT
Shooting, egg collection and falconry along with habitat alteration certainly did raptors no good but DDT is not now nor ever was guilty of causing raptor decline, yet still one of the greens’ most successful myths is constantly reiterated and reinforced Continue reading
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Bias in DDT reporting?
Does Al Gore like hotel room “massages” Continue reading
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DDT linked to vitamin D deficiency?
This study links trace levels of DDT with credibility deficiency. Continue reading
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DDT T-shirts are back!
By popular demand. Get yours at the JunkScience.com Store. Continue reading
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Times-Picayune celebrates DDT myth as history
The brown pelican was not endangered by DDT. Continue reading
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Boston Globe: DDT ‘decimated’ eagle population
And how does it know that? Continue reading
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Wanted: Bald Eagle Killers
A current event explains what happened to the bald eagle in the first part of the 20th century. Continue reading
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Now global warming blamed for eagle decline
If it’s not one manmade thing, it’s another. Continue reading
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Letter: DDT ban has deadly consequences
Kudos to Wayne Michaelchuck (Gibbstown, NJ) for this terrific letter-to-the-editor of the Gloucester County Times. Continue reading
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Bald eagles still not saved by DDT ban…
… no matter how many times the myth is repeated. Continue reading
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Brown pelicans not harmed by DDT either
Thanks to Florida journalist Charles Sobczak for the opportunity to debunk another DDT myth. Continue reading
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Nope: Peregrines not saved by DDT ban, either
Dr. William Hornaday of the New York Zoological Society referred to [peregrine falcons] as birds that “deserve death, but are so rare that we need not take them into account” — in 1913. Continue reading
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