Malaria
Interview in which Rachel Carson is criticized. Above Video: Courtesy of Reason TV
"Dr. William Bowers, head of the Entomology Department at the University of Arizona, said in 1986 that DDT is the most significant discovery of all time, and “in malaria control alone it saved almost 3 billion lives.”-The Lies of Rachel Carson
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Carson “encourages some of the most destructive strains within environmentalism: alarmism, technophobia, failure to consider the costs and benefits of alternatives, and the discounting of human well-being around the world.” -Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko (published in Forbes in 2012)
Today many people blame Carson for the deaths of malaria victims (potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease) because before DDT was banned it had eradicated the disease in much of the world.
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