| | | The only one mis-informed on this issue is yourself. You like conspiracy theories, no matter how wild.
Dear Misinformed :)
From one of the links you refuse to open, most likely because "it could contaminate your 'purist' liberal life attitude":
"The Controversy
Environmentalists pushing for a DDT ban seemed to have won. Other countries also banned it and some developing countries, threatened with a cut off of their economic aid, also quit using it
But some humanitarians were upset. They claimed the ban was a death sentence to millions of people.
And they had statistics:
In Sri Lanka, the country’s malaria burden shrunk from 2.8 million cases in the 1940s to just 17 in 1965, due to the use of DDT.
Five years after the country stopped using DDT, the number of cases had risen to 500,000.
In the 1980’s Madagascar stopped using DDT and immediately had an epidemic of malaria, resulting in the death of more than 100,000 people.
The humanitarians’ rage over the ban was summed up by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park. One of his characters in the novel State of Fear says that banning DDT was “arguably the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century” and that the ban “killed more than Hitler.”
BTW, this data and the links date back to long before you Liblosers came up with 'Wingnuts' and other nice names for 'non-believers' in your religion.
/Taro
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