Comments on: Warm Feelings http://www.freedomtalks.org/2007/10/19/warm-feelings/ The FreedomWorks blog dedicated to lower taxes and more freedom. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Disreputable publishers: Falsehoods in print « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub http://www.freedomtalks.org/2007/10/19/warm-feelings/#comment-82341 Disreputable publishers: Falsehoods in print « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub Thu, 01 May 2008 11:35:44 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/?p=1099#comment-82341 [...] can bet the conservative and anti-science, and anti-environmental protection blogs will light up with this [...] [...] can bet the conservative and anti-science, and anti-environmental protection blogs will light up with this [...]

]]> By: Ed Darrell http://www.freedomtalks.org/2007/10/19/warm-feelings/#comment-57578 Ed Darrell Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:16:55 +0000 http://www.freedomtalks.org/?p=1099#comment-57578 <blockquote>But the best way to combat malaria deaths isn’t with nets. It’s with DDT, a pesticide that was banned as a result of moral crusades by one of the earliest environmental activists, Rachel Carson (you can read more about the damage she did here).</blockquote> I believe that is exactly contrary to what any malaria expert would say. DDT is still effective against some mosquitoes in some places -- thanks to Rachel Carson, by the way (your railing against her is really quite ugly). But DDT alone cannot do the job. Increasing DDT spraying outside an integrated program where DDT plays a small part, would lead to the same disasters of the 1960s, with malaria roaring back stronger than ever in those places where DDT was used the most. Nets alone won't do the trick, either, but nets work with all pesticides, and nets are, right now, one of the key ingredients to a successful fight against malaria. Malaria can be beaten without DDT. Malaria can't be beaten with DDT alone. Malaria can't be beaten with programs that rely heavily in DDT spraying in place of the more important barrier prophylaxis and improved delivery of improved health care. C'mon over to my blog and read a bit about DDT. It's a deadly poison that, unfortunately, also kills the foodstocks of many malaria victims. There are better things to do than to increase DDT use.

But the best way to combat malaria deaths isn’t with nets. It’s with DDT, a pesticide that was banned as a result of moral crusades by one of the earliest environmental activists, Rachel Carson (you can read more about the damage she did here).

I believe that is exactly contrary to what any malaria expert would say.

DDT is still effective against some mosquitoes in some places — thanks to Rachel Carson, by the way (your railing against her is really quite ugly). But DDT alone cannot do the job. Increasing DDT spraying outside an integrated program where DDT plays a small part, would lead to the same disasters of the 1960s, with malaria roaring back stronger than ever in those places where DDT was used the most. Nets alone won’t do the trick, either, but nets work with all pesticides, and nets are, right now, one of the key ingredients to a successful fight against malaria.

Malaria can be beaten without DDT. Malaria can’t be beaten with DDT alone. Malaria can’t be beaten with programs that rely heavily in DDT spraying in place of the more important barrier prophylaxis and improved delivery of improved health care.

C’mon over to my blog and read a bit about DDT. It’s a deadly poison that, unfortunately, also kills the foodstocks of many malaria victims. There are better things to do than to increase DDT use.

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