because DDT is good for you, thinkin is bad...

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Oklahoma senator vows to block Rachel Carson centennial resolution

 

A resolution honoring this weekend's 100th birthday of the late Rachel Carson

will be blocked if Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has his way. Why? Because the

" now-debunked Silent Spring " was " the catalyst in the deadly worldwide

stigmatization against insecticides, especially DDT, " he says. Yes, damn her for

pointing out that industrial society is killing itself with toxic chemicals it

created. The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), would honor

Carson's " legacy of scientific rigor coupled with poetic sensibility. " But

Coburn, a doctor who advocates the use of DDT to combat malaria, terms her work

" junk science. " While there's no shortage of controversy over DDT, even fellow

conservatives say slamming Carson is a little ... nuts. " A lot of people have

used Carson to push their own agendas, " said Roger Bate of the American

Enterprise Institute. " We just have to be a little careful when you're talking

about someone who died in 1964, " just two years after her seminal book appeared.

 

 

 

 

straight to the source: The Washington Post, David A. Fahrenthold, 23 May 2007

 

“The Earth is not dying - she is being killed. And those who are killing her

have names and addresses.†— Utah Phillips