By Steve Milloy
U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson win this week’s award for cynicism. Continue reading Obama finally embraces malaria victims — as political pawns
Category: Pesticides
Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?
By Steven Milloy
September 21, 2006, FoxNews.com
Last week’s announcement that the World Health Organization lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in global public health since… well, 1943 when DDT was first used to combat insect-borne diseases like typhus and malaria. Continue reading Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?
Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High
By Steven Milloy
July 6, 2006, FoxNews.com
Pennsylvania officials just announced success with their program to re-establish the state’s bald eagle population. But it’s a shame that such welcome news is being tainted by oft-repeated myths about the great bird’s near extinction. Continue reading Bald Eagle-DDT Myth Still Flying High
Frog Study Leaps to Conclusions
By Steven Milloy
April 19, 2002, FoxNews.com
This week’s eco-horror claim is that the most commonly used herbicide in North America supposedly deforms the sex organs of frogs. Continue reading Frog Study Leaps to Conclusions
100 Things You Should Know About DDT
by J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy
July 26, 1999, JunkScience.com
Recommended Reading by the New York Times Continue reading 100 Things You Should Know About DDT